Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:41:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Team FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906230932360.4375-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <000901bebd8e$bfcf6b80$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com>
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Hi,
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> And how far is seta@home along in finding little green men? ;)
We might find them in 2 minutes? 2 hours? Centuries?
How soon we will break rc5-64? Using the most pessimistic view, another
15.3 years. (at roughly the current rate)
> In the meantime, I personally can derive a greater sense of
> accomplishment from more readily accomplishable tasks. True, cracking
> digital encryption isn't as sexy, but it has a tangible timeframe to
> completion.
Tangible timeframe ... long. The point of the rc5 contests was to show
that the encryption methods being used/limited by the US government were
insufficient. That's certainly been true w/ the DES stuff, but rc5-64 has
been going for 1.7 years and they haven't even gotten through 10% of the
keyspace with the equivalent of some hundreds of thousands of P100's (I
think that's what they said somewhere - can't find the reference). It
seems to me that rc5-64 is pretty good. :-)
In any case, my science background makes me far more interested in doing a
more "traditional" science experiment than cracking encrypted messages
where I can work for years and maybe never do anything but pump out keys.
In SETI, I might not find aliens, but I might find something else of
scientific interest.
Brett
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