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Greetings from distributed.net!
I'm extremely pleased to announce that our DES-TEST-1 contest was a
success. Not only were we able to evaluate the performance and reliability
of our new v300 ("devel") proxies and our v2.7103 clients with quick-start,
but we successfully found the key after only 59 hours of searching. The k=
ey,
0x5ED9204FECE0B967, was able to recover the plain-text message, "The unkno=
wn
message is: The DES-test contest's plaintext" We have yet to contact the=
=20
individual who was running the lucky client, so I won't release his/her em=
ail
address yet. If (s)he has no objection, I'll announce the winner in anoth=
er
email. The winning block was cracked on a Macintosh PowerPC in the US run=
ning
v2.7103 of the rc5des client and submitted at 04:17:13 GMT on 01/09/98.
This contest was able to reinforce the astounding growth of distributed.ne=
t,
both in terms of our CPU power, but also in regards to the amazing
functionality of our v2.7103 clients. Within a couple hours of DES-TEST-1=
's
start time, the keymaster was reporting DES rates of over 20Gkey/s. During
DES-II-2, it took us about 20 hours to reach that rate.
We would like to thank everyone who participated. This extensive testing
allowed us to learn weaknesses of our current quick-start implementation, =
and
we will be able to improve it for maximum performance and efficiency.
However, in order to ensure near-flawless operations during the actual DES=
-III
contest, we would like to announce distributed.net's second DES test chall=
enge,
named DES-TEST-2. This challenge will commence at 09:00am PST on Tuesday,
January 12th. To simulate a real DES challenge where we have a time limit,
we will stop the challenge if the key has not been found within 56 hours.
If you haven't already, please upgrade your clients to v2.7103. You can f=
ind
the newest clients at http://www.distributed.net/clients.html or directly =
off
the FTP site at ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/dcti/v2.7103/.
Thanks for your support,
Daniel Baker
dbaker@distributed.net
--=20
dbaker@cuckoo.com - CuckooNet Consultant - www.cuckoo.com
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