[67035] in Cypherpunks
Re: Can we kill single DES?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Wed Oct 2 02:49:45 1996
From: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
To: trei@process.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 05:27:25 GMT
In-Reply-To: <199610012026.NAA28151@toad.com>
DES CRACKING SCREENSAVER
Sorry for writing twice, beside wanting to add that I might be able to do some
programming for a worthy cause, I just got a rather good idea to make a
screensaver unique and interesting ( making people want to burn cycles )
Picture this: the user upon installing the program points at his/her location on
a world map. This location is send to the keyserver, which sends back highly
compressed information about where other people are running their
"screensavers", the screensaver itself can simply display a rotating globe,
where the different densities of global usage is given in colour shades, showing
an inverse sunclock of sorts. I think such a concept might give the DES-cracking
screensaver a critical mass.
frank
