[Air-l] Fwd: RC5-64 solved

[jeremy hunsinger]

one of those little bits of history i guess.  so i'm forwarding it in 
hope that it finds other interested folks.  4 years, thousands of 
computers, one solution properly applied is worth much more than the 
exercise itself.

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> From: Graham Lally <scribe at exmosis.net>
> Date: Thu Sep 26, 2002  12:42:07 PM US/Eastern
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: RC5-64 solved
>
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> Just noticed on /. that distributed.net wound up 4 years of intense CPU
> cycles, by getting the key to RSA's RC5-64 challenge.
>
> Distributed.net release:
> http://www.distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html
>
> "On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned
> the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key
> 0x63DE7DC154F4D03 produces the plaintext output:
>
> ~    The unknown message is: some things are better left unread
>
> Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) 
> on
> the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically
> detected. It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was 
> immediately
> submitted to RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key."
>
> .g
>
> - --
> "I look at your tanks, at the snipers, at the whole army, and feel joy.
> Because I know that these two rooms, in which we are huddled together,
> are stronger than all this might."                      - Tawfiq Tirawi
>
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jeremy hunsinger
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