Distributed.net

[Tony Hammitt]

I'll admit that I have lots of spare CPU cycles, but I am completely
uninterested in helping out on some silly 'crack this string' or
'find the aliens' project.  I wish they'd get their OGR project back
to working status, that was at least useful.  I'm a mathematician,
not a CS guy.  Maybe I don't have the long view but it just doesn't
seem important to break someone's encryption and last I heard, SETI at home
was over subscribed and couldn't generate enough data for all of their
volunteers to check.

Just my opinion,

Tony Hammitt

Randy Rathbun wrote:
> 
> Just thought I would mention this since I know there are quite a few new
> people on the list since I mentioned it back in November:
> 
> KCLUG has a distributed.net team chunking out RC5-64 keys at an average
> rate of 2.4 million keys/sec. We are ranked 4827. However, there are only
> two of us on the team, so I think we are doing pretty darn good!
> 
> So, if you would like to donate your spare CPU cycles to this effort, grab
> the dnet client and join Mac Wisler and I!
> 
> To get the dnet client, go here:
> http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html
> 
> To join the team (or see our stats) go here:
> http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=17572
> 
> Yeah, it ain't as sexy as seti at home, but we have a better chance of finding
> the key than of finding life in the universe.