Re: power consumption
Nils <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:35:29 +0200
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On 03.07.2012 07:14, waldo kitty wrote: > it is going to be done, one way or the other... by us or by some gov't > entity... US or otherwise... Err, no. Nobody else than us is working on this contest and pretty surely no one is going to start. RSA has canceled it years ago. This is about cracking a SINGLE RC5-72 key, you know? It doesn't give any significant insight in cracking RC5 in whole other than what effort it takes to brute force ONE KEY. Imho, the effort should've stopped or been suspended once it became clear that we'd require more than 10 years (a lot!) to do it unless some serious advance could be made on the approach. Just my .02 Nils _______________________________________________ rc5 mailing list rc5-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5