[82088] in Cypherpunks
Re: Where to get your RC5 crackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Jun 20 00:26:34 1997
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 20:31:38 -0700
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970619191551.006fdddc@netcom9.netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
At 07:15 PM 6/19/97 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>It seems that the RC5 cracking effort had no idea about the loads their web
>server would be subjected to once thousands of DES crackers moved over to
>cracking RC5. Their NT based webserver (bad idea...) collapsed. While it
>recovers, you can still get the client software from
>ftp://ftp.distributed.net/rc5/
Sounds like a job for Broadcasting! Anybody who has a copy want to
post it to Usenet? (It also sounds like a job for web caching proxies at
ISPs.)
# Thanks; Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
# (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
