Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have > a chance to beat linuxnet. > > Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running > at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals > from debian users asking

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-26 Thread Branden Robinson
> After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have > a chance to beat linuxnet. > > Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running > at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals > from debian users asking about the ftp site, or wi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-26 Thread Adam Shand
> Is the rc5-race package out yet? Four people have requested it since >yesterday! It is already a popular item, and ideally (and if it is possible) >it should come with a crontab job to upload the result and get a new keyspace. >I tell you, we could *easily* compete with linuxnet in two weeks. If

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-26 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
After analyzing the data, I conclude that we theoretically have a chance to beat linuxnet. Our speed has droped 25% compared with yesterday. Linuxnet is running at four times our present speed. Today I received about six personals from debian users asking about the ftp site, or with other rc

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Daniel Robbins
> I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected > machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does > it use -- it's at a premium here. The trick with this contest is to track down all of your buddies who are system administrators for huge numbers of machi

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Daniel Robbins
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected > > machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does > > it use -- it's at a premium here. > > Including in

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi. You may all be pleased to know the following stats at 12:25am +0800 WST 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 112709 115.41 72.82 2 #root 36550 163.60 16.66 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12229 95.72 9.53 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11350 133.86 6.32 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10394 78.17 9.91 With a 9.91 average, we're

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I'm running on an demand dialed modem connection, and the bandwidth requirement is pretty minimal (I had to explicitly nice it down to 17, though, for it not to make my machine slow as sludge). manoj -- "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." Chesterton Manoj Srivasta

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I'd consider running it here (since I have a permanently connected > machine with time on its hands), but how much network bandwidth does > it use -- it's at a premium here. Including inet headers, the upper limit is about 1k bytes of traffic per ke

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riku Voipio wrote: > > > Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too. > > This may sound silly, but why doesn't someone package this thing (both US > and non-US) with a nice description of what it is, how can the whole > community beneffit from such an e

Re: OFFTOPIC rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
The sources are now in portal.stwing.upenn.edu and ftp.genx.net. I saw someone mentioning it in the linux-kernel mailing list. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-ma

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-25 Thread David Lutz
So far I have read a lot about everybody joining in, what name to run under and how to split the money. But I have only seen two URL's on where to get info for this. One is the at upenn.edu where I could only find a precompiled binary, but NO Documentation or Source Code. I also saw a referenc

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-24 Thread Marcelo Magallon
On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riku Voipio wrote: > Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too. This may sound silly, but why doesn't someone package this thing (both US and non-US) with a nice description of what it is, how can the whole community beneffit from such an effort, etc, an

Re: [OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-23 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
Last night, I added one 133Mz to the effort. Here are few simple tips for those with dial-up isp accounts and with similar machine: (1) Connect to isp and get several Keyspaces by excecuting this several times: % nohup /usr/bin/nice -9 loop.sh rc5-client-linux-i486 -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

[OFFTOPIC] rc5-race is running!

1997-02-23 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi All! There is currently running a competition on how fast one (where one is the whole net community) can brake 56-bit rc5 cryptography. for more details, see: http://zero.genx.net/ Here at debian, we have joined the fun, and you can join in too. all you need to do is download the client from