Dyyryath
02-07-2004, 08:32 PM
So, it seems that our 'members in the know' have decided against Grub:<br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><b>PCZ Says:</b><br><br>After reading ECL's post in this thread I went over to the grub forum and had a good read of the posts there. What ECL said is spot on.<br><br><b>This is not a project we should be associated with.</b></td></tr></table><br><br>Now, while we try to avoid making policies around here, it's generally a pretty good bet that if several of your fellow Free-DC guys are in agreement over something like this, it's probably something to avoid. You can read more about why they don't like it (as well as <b>ECL's</b> thoughtful objections) <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5519&perpage=25&pagenumber=2">right here</a>.<br><br>So, what are they doing instead? Looks like <a href="http://www.md5crk.com/">MD5CRK</a>. Didn't take them long to find something new, did it? <img src=http://www.free-dc.org/images/news/icon41.gif><br><br>What's it about? Here's the lowdown:<br><br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;">The aim of MD5CRK is to raise awareness in the IT industry that MD5 is not secure for many applications. We aim to disprove one of the fundamental requirements of a secure message digest: No two inputs can be found which produce the same digest - this is also known as a collision.<br><br>In cryptography, there can be no doubt in an algorithm's security. Demonstrating a counter-example to a required property in an algorithm effectivly renders the algorithm insecure.</td></tr></table><br><br>Is this a project for you? It's probably not going to drag me from Distributed Folding, but we all have different tastes. If it sounds like something you'd be interested in, check the <a href="http://www.free-dc.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5535">lobby thread about it</a>, some of your teammates are already experimenting with it.<br><br>