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Thursday, December 12, 2002 Team phule_rc5 has submitted its first work units to the Stanford University managed Folding@Home project. See the stats here.Thursday, September 26, 2002 At long last, after nearly 5 years, RC5-64 has been completed. It actually was finished on July 14, 2002 but because of a missed check of the log files that watch for the right key, it was not discovered until late August. http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/releases/pr.asp?doc_id=1400 is the RSA press release and http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html is the distributed.net press release.Friday, December 15, 2000 it's been about a month since the last update, so it's definetly time. a couple of interesting things have been happening with distributed.net:
Monday, November 13, 2000 distributed.net has made a couple of changes to the way project info is being handed out (at least for the short term). dnet will be handing out OGR-24's more agressively, so be sure to check your stats there as well as with OGR-25. They also let the proxy server "dry out" in terms of OGR blocks, so if you find your client idle or switched to RC5, that is why. The proxy are filling again and you'll be able to continue work on OGR after the test is over. If you want to, you can delete your RC5 buffers (after you flush) and the client will try to fetch more OGR work units.Friday, October 20, 2000 1:20:03 PM Updates to the stats pages will be occuring soon. I will be adding the historical stuff (DES, RC5-56) and probably providing links to the older HTML pages describing this teams participation in those contests.Monday, July 17, 2000 It has been far too long since the team pages had an update. This is terrible. I apologize and will try to make these pages far more dynamic than static.In exciting news, the OGR contest has restarted! Visit http://www.distributed.net for all the details! Friday, January 15, 2000; 2:26:00 AM CST Distributed.net has released a second webpage to indicate which clients have been updated: This page lists client updates by date. Check it out today!Thursday, January 13, 2000; 10:52:47 PM CST As we approach the end of the CSC keyspace, you will probabaly want to set your buffers to lower and lower values. This is because the rate at which unchecked blocks are being re-issued is increasing. Given this, the probability that you are checking the same block as someone else also increases. Nearing the end of the full keyspace will always result in this. If you are a modem user, try to connect at least once a day. If possible, connect once in the morning and once when you get home from work. Set your buffers to have just enough blocks to get through those time periods, and no more. This will ensure that you get the most "bang" for your buck. If you have a permenent connection, set your CSC buffers to 2:2 or even to 1:1. This will ensure quick turn-around on these re-issued blocks.Please note that these rules are only for clients participating in the CSC contest. For clients crunching RC5 blocks, nothing has to change. Tuesday, November 16, 1999; 1:12:24 PM CST NOVEMBER 17th, 00:00 GMT:The next great distributed.net challenge begins! http://www.distributed.net/csc/ (from distributed.net) Moo! On behalf of distributed.net, I am pleased to announce that we have completed the development and testing phases of CSC (CS-Cipher Challenge). We are ready for a wide-scale release, deployment, and launch. On November 17th at 00:00GMT, we will release the latest RC5/DES/CSC clients (dnetc446) and proxies (v311). Although we are working towards ports for every platform, they will not all be ready immediately. Users can visit the CSC web page (http://www.distributed.net/csc/) for more information at the contest start. CSC is an encryption challenge that is organized by CS Communications and Systems. It was designed to last one year, beginning March 17, 1999. CS Communications and Systems wishes to demonstrate how weak a 56-bit key is against brute force attacks. Accordingly, distributed.net has taken on the challenge. A 10,000 Euro prize is being offered to the winner. As usual, distributed.net plans to distribute the money in our 60/20/20 method. 60% of the prize goes to the most popular non-profit organization. 20% goes to the winner, and 20% goes to distributed.net to cover expenses and further development. I would like to thank the hundreds of people who participated in our CSC beta during the past week. The test ran quite smoothly, and the assistance provided by users proved invaluable as we weeded out the remaining bugs in the new client code. The new clients will be at http://www.distributed.net/csc/clients.html so please
download the latest release when they're released, and start cracking CSC. We
can wrap this project up in no time at all, as long as we work together.
Thank you for your continued support! Date: 7/17/99; Time: 18:00 CST Well, it has been quite a while since I've made any updates to the web pages. I know it's been kinda pathetic as of late. We have a new member: Karyl Parks. I met her on-line in #distributed (IRC) and asked her to become a member of the team. She agreed and has been very helpful ever since. (Especially in explaining unix-shells). We are very happy to have her onboard. In other news, new win32 GUI clients should finally be coming out (this weekend they were promised. Whether or not this actually happens remains to be seen. But I'm pretty confident that they will be soon. The client will have the option to grab 2^33 blocks now, so if you're one of those people that have to spend large ammounts of time off-line, this upgrade is for you. Please note that already, the Win32 Command-line client has this available as well as the Linux and various other Unix clients. I believe there is still work being done on the Mac OS clients, and I've not heard any word as to when they are being released. 2 new contests will be coming up "soon." They are CSC and OGR. OGR you've probabaly seen me mention via the team email list, but CSC is fairly new. Information for this can be found: here. In overall team news, our growth has been quite spectacular. Although we've not increased in rank (infact we have decreased by about 100 spots since February) our overall rate has grown tremendously. We surpassed 1 million blocks completed about 2 months ago, and we've already processed 200K+ since then! Let's keep up the great work! |