Re: [OFFTOPIC]: Linux is losing to Macs in the RC5 effort!

forcer (forcer@mindless.com)
Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:26:46 +0100

Scott wrote:
>The project hasn't started yet, but it's getting close.
(SETI@home)
from http://www.bigscience.com/:
[recent news]
January '98. The project is on hold until we can find an organization
to take over the fundraising and promotional responsibilites. The
ideal group would be a well-connected non-profit organization,
although we are also pursuing individual corporations with the
resources to underwrite the entire project.

That doesn't look like a start getting close ;)
RC5-64 is a nice intermediary thing to get our CPU's from getting tired...
Like with DES-II, if something "more important" pops up we can change, and
distributed.net will change as well.
Finally, you might not only join distributed.net (http://www.distributed.net/),
but also the Search For Mersenne Primes (http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm),
the cracking of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (http://ashpool.hpl.hp.com/~ecc/ or
http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/security/crackers/p97/)
finding factors of the ten most wanted composite numbers (http://www.dataplex.net/NFSNet/),
find new factors of Fermat numbers (http://www.mersenne.org/fermat.htm),
find the best way to arrange circles within a square (http://www.omn.com/dboll/packing.html),
or Help search for optimal Golomb rulers (http://members.aol.com/golomb20/index.html).
Don't quote me on the URLs, or wether they have Linux programs, these are just
what i found after a quick survey (to http://www.mersenne.org/ *g*)
Regardless what, using idle CPU power for useful things is _always_ a good
idea, so long,
-forcer

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