distributed RC-72 end?

[CFS]

http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/planarc.cgi?user=bovine&plan=2007-05-21.04:34


Now that the industry has a considerably more advanced understanding of the cryptanalytic strength of common symmetric-key and public-key algorithms, these challenges are no longer active.

[alpha]

Ouch. Very annoying for both the dnet team and the participants. :swear:

[Death]

not for me.

dump this dumb rc5! everybody does OGR!!

[LAURENU2]

not for me.

dump this dumb rc5! everybody does OGR!!
And this comes from the Unholy Undead:bang:

PS: when ar you comeing to take me away

[alpha]

not for me.

dump this dumb rc5! everybody does OGR!!

I agree that RC5-72 was a bit of a timewaster, but the fact that there is now no prize money is disappointing. Oh, plus if dnet decide to abandon the project, the number of wasted cycles would be incredible.

[the-mk]

# of wasted cycles: that's the reason why I stopped RC5 a long time ago...

[IronBits]

:shocked: That's not gonna make JTrinkle very happy! :bang:

[birdman2584]

And another thing is that RSA Labs wont be releasing the winning code either, so they will never know for a 100% if the answer is even correct.

[alpha]

They should do, since:


For each contest, the unknown plaintext message was preceded by three known blocks of text that contained the 24-character phrase "The unknown message is: ".

[TheOtherPhil]

not for me.

dump this dumb rc5! everybody does OGR!!

Er, I do and have done so for 1623 days.

[alpha]

Only just saw this:


:: 08-Sep-2008 02:09 GMT (Monday) ::


Dear friends,

As announced on May 21, 2007, RSA Labs officially discontinued their
sponsorship of the Secret Key Challenge and withdrew the monetary
prize they offered. However, we have been continuing to run the RC5-72
project without their sponsorship. Effective with this announcement,
will officially fund the prize using the same distribution ratios that
we would have originally used, as per
http://stats.distributed.net/misc/money.php?project_id=8

The individual who finds the key US$1,000
The winning individual's team US$1,000
Free Software Foundation (winning charity) US$2,000


Although the option of privately funding the prizes had been discussed
publicly on the mailing list and we had internally decided this
several months ago, we thought it would be prudent to officially
announce this position to our participants.

These prizes will be paid from our organization's general purpose
funds. If you would like to make donations to us and designate them
for use as a prize, we will gladly honor that request. If we receive
designated contributions exceeding the above totals, then the excess
will be paid out in proportion to the above ratios. To donate to our
organization, please see http://www.distributed.net/donation.php

Moo! ]:8)So the prize is back on!

[Brucifer]

Heh heh heh..... :)

For the PS3 crowd it's good that rc5-72 isn't finished since ogr-26 isn't a project for them. And in looking at yesterday's stats, I see that the team still has a few people crunching rc5. I got to checking my directories on the various systems and noticed that I had quite a few unfinished work units laying around. So since ogr-25 is finished and there isn't a massive rush on ogr-ng, I thought I'd get all the old rc5 units cleaned u p and turn those puppies in. And at least it isn't a boinc project!!! :jester:

[alpha]

Brucifer, you'd probably be wasting your time crunching old RC5-72 blocks. I've done it before in the past thinking the exact same thing as you but if they've already been returned by others you won't get credit.

That's the same reason running the client offline generating random RC5-72 blocks is not very productive, you end up duping work and getting less credit.

[Brucifer]

yeah I know. But I figured that there probably isn't that much chance that they have been finished as there's so many of them outstanding. Oh well, as the daughter says... :-) I'll find out when the stats run tonight. :)