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Project CSC

CSC Launched! Download clients below!

We're currently crunching away at the CS-Cypher challenge at roughly 0.00 Gk/s.

• Client Download Center: Get a client; divide and conquer!
• The Rate Clock is an accurate readout of the network's speed, updated every five minutes. (The figures on the distributed.net web pages such as this one are updated every three hours.)
• A CSC Project datapoint set is available for people who are addicted to gnuplot.
• Proxyinfo contains more info about our network than you ever wanted to know.
• Our project launch announcement is available.

an introduction to the CSC effort

distributed.net is leading a new cryptographic effort to crack a 56-bit key and decrypt a message that has been encrypted with the CS Cipher.

The CS-Cipher Challenge is organized by CS Communications & Systems and will last until March 17, 2000. It is meant to demonstrate how weak a 56-bit key is against brute force attacks. A 10,000 Euros prize is at stake, so download a client and start cracking those CS keys!

The CS-Cipher Algorithm is a symmetric block cipher, meaning that the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the message. The algorithm supports variable key lengths ranging from 0 to 128 bits and handles message encryption and decryption in fixed-size 64 bit blocks.

General Links Pertaining to CSC

• CS Communications & Systems Challenge home page
• dcypher.net: Another CSC-cracking distributed computing project

Click here to mail to help@distributed.net.