The End of RC5-72?

[PowerToTheUsers]

Dear friends,

It is with great sadness that we must announce that RSA Labs has
decided to terminate the RSA Secret-Key Challenge, which impacts the
RC5-72 project and all of the remaining RC5 challenges. This means
that RSA Labs will not confirm any solutions or award any additional
prizes, should a correct solution be found. Furthermore, we have
received a statement indicating that they will not be disclosing the
solutions to the unsolved challenges. More details can be found on
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2100 (Note that the page should
state that the RC5-32/12/8 solution was recovered on 14 July 2002, not
28 January 1997.)

Although RSA Labs is halting their official sponsorship, there is
still the option open to us to continue the project without their
prize or validation. We would like to solicit your feedback regarding
this option. Discussion is welcome on our rc5 mailing list (see
http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5 if you are not
already a member). In the coming days, we will provide a facility to
allow official votes to be made.

If the choice to discontinue the RC5-72 project is made, the official
transition plan will be as follows: In one week's time from the
announced decision, the distributed.net keyservers will begin
indicating that the RC5-72 project is closed to all connecting dnetc
clients. All results received after that time will be discarded. A
couple of days before then, we will begin slowing down RC5 work unit
generation to allow the network to drain. If we receive sufficient
feedback indicating that you would like us to continue operating the
RC5-72 project, we will continue to generate work units and the
project will remain open.

We intend to continue operating the OGRp2 project, and are currently
in the development stages of additional types of projects. More
details regarding these future projects will be announced at a later
date. In the mean time, we encourage everyone to continue
participating in both the RC5-72 and OGRp2 projects.

Moo! ]:8)

Quote from http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/dne...gi?user=bovine
The RSA labs have the solution of the encrypted message, so without their support there is no more fun. Also, the RSA labs had awarded a prize of 10.000$ to he/she who would find the encrypted message. Distributed.net splitted this up into 1.000 for the user who found the key, 1.000 for his/her team, and 2.000$ for distributed.net. The other 6.000$ would go to a non-profit organization.

So without the support op RSA-labs, there is no more target for this project. However, distributed.net did not only crunch RC5 (/72, but before also /64 and /56), but they have a OGR-project too. Real dnet-adepts might transfer from RC5 to OGR, other RC5-users might make the step to BOINC...

[tutta55]

If the projects stops now, Belgian MoOo Farm ends in position 11 according to DC Vault. Well done, BMF!

Erm, are there many "northern cows" that will migrate to Boinc pastures?

[Krikke]

Erm, are there many "northern cows" that will migrate to Boinc pastures?

Yet again, let's hope this crunching power does not go to waste (by people completely quitting crunching).
Let's wait and see what the outcome is but maybe we need to prepare some sort of "attract former RC5 crunchers" campaign.

[tutta55]

Yet again, let's hope this crunching power does not go to waste (by people completely quitting crunching).
Let's wait and see what the outcome is but maybe we need to prepare some sort of "attract former RC5 crunchers" campaign.

Good plan. Ideas anyone on what we could do?

[Giorgio]

Good plan. Ideas anyone on what we could do?

Haven't those teams any forums or websites where we could try to push a message?

Giorgio

[Krikke]

Haven't those teams any forums or websites where we could try to push a message?

Giorgio

How do we found out the Belgians in the teams?
I checked http://stats.distributed.net/team/tl...ow=1&limit=100 but I cannot find the countries

[Raby]

Some I found :

Infogroep-Gaosu-VUB (BE) with an email : x
Computer Magazine Belgium : x
Kot Scriptor [Belgium] : x
Belgian Distributed Ones : x
FortyTwo - Belgian's number 1 ! : x (http://42.godden.net)

Edited by Giorgio: Please do not put any e-mail addresses on the forum. First of all this can trigger spam-mail to be send to these addresses and secondly it's not correct to "publish" these e-mail addresses here without prior validation by the owners.

[Krikke]

Some I found :

Infogroep-Gaosu-VUB (BE) with an email : x
Computer Magazine Belgium : x
Kot Scriptor [Belgium] : x
Belgian Distributed Ones : x
FortyTwo - Belgian's number 1 ! : x (http://42.godden.net)

Edited by Giorgio: Please do not put any e-mail addresses on the forum. First of all this can trigger spam-mail to be send to these addresses and secondly it's not correct to "publish" these e-mail addresses here without prior validation by the owners.

Maybe discuss this in private/restricted part of the forum?

[tutta55]

Maybe discuss this in private/restricted part of the forum?

Yes, let's make further evil plans over there

[Krikke]

Yes, let's make further evil plans over there

Ow, you mean that ... plan, like the one we did to those .... and we took over ... and assimilated ...