Re: RSA Secret-Key Challenge Termination

Joseph Kaye wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:53:35AM -0400, Greg
Lobring wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Personally I don't foresee myself continuing to
crunch RC5-72 keys with the
>>> discontinuation of the challenge by RSA. In
fact, I've already disabled the
>>> RC5-72 project on all my clients, they are
doing only OGR work now. As it
>>> stands with yesterday's stats, it could be well
over 1,000 years before
>>> RC5-72 is done. Even with progressing
technology, I don't see that
>>> diminishing too much in my lifetime. I've put
over 1,630 days (over 4 years)
>>> into the project, and seeing it at only 0.415%
complete is a little
>>> depressing!
>>>     
>>>       
>> Personally, I think it would be a shame to
officially close RC5-72
>> without at least taking these new cores for a
spin.
>>   
>>     
> Absolutely! Even if only so that the developers of the
core could see 
> the fruits of their labor, and see "what could
have been".   Another 
> question - would we be able to confirm if the key was
found, or can only 
> the RSA confirm this?
Only they'd be able to confirm it for sure, however,
assuming that 
there's only one key that produces coherent verbage it could
be assumed 
we've found it.

--
Scott
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