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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Wed Oct 2 11:44:38 2002
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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@spamassassin.taint.org>
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Subject: Distributed.net cracks the RC5-64 cipher
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:01:20 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85512053
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Date: Not supplied
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The Distributed.net project -- a precursor to SETI@Home that used volunteer
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computer-time to attack giant, sophisticated ciphers -- has cracked RC564. I
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used to have half a dozen computers working on this.
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On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the
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winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D039
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produces the plaintext output:
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The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
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Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on
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the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically detected.
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It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was immediately submitted to
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RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Dave[3]!_)
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[1] http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/wf6mvUdf3xfR
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[3] http://www.seizethedave.com/
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