Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 12:30:19 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RSA Contest Message-ID: <2746.858889819@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:18:31 EST." <199703201918.OAA00998@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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> Well I've stopped the rc5 processes on my machines, the server hasnt been > responding for days. I'm surprised you held out that long - I killed mine weeks ago. :-) The contest basically fell apart, from everything I could see. I'm also not sure if the original objectives were met and I've got fairly grave doubts that any 10,000 machines ever participated *effectively* during this run. There was so much syn-flooding and general network mayhem going on that I'll bet if anyone ever does the final and honest accounting for this, based on the number of key cracks actually performed, you'll probably find that only about 500 machine's worth of pure 24/7 crunching was achieved (or something close to an order of magnitude less than the numbers being claimed). Jordan
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