ViRGE
Elite Member, Moderator Emeritus
v3.2 July 15, 2000
Originally written by Jackal/Posted and maintained by ViRGE
This FAQ (http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187766) explains how to get started using the distributed.net (D.net) client software to aid Team AnandTech in the RC5/OGR challenge(explained at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187777) on computers to which you have EXPLICIT PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER AND/OR OPERATOR TO RUN THE CLIENT ON. Please do NOT install this software on ANY machines you do not have such expressed permission to access or use.
If you understand and agree with the above statement, you may proceed.
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1) Go to http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html and download the appropriate client program for your CPU and Operating System. For Windows and most other OS's, a command line interface (CLI) client is what's available (the GUI is no longer officially supported). The Windows has both zipped and self-installing(reccomended) versions available.
1b) If you use the zipped version and WinZip, make sure WinZip is in "classic" mode, otherwise it will fail to extract all the files.
2) Install the client software. Under General Client Options, there is a field(#1) in which you must enter your email address. It must be a real, working email, because it is where D.net will email your password a little later on, and the password is required to join Team AnandTech. If you anticipate changes in your email address will be a common occurrence, a Hotmail or other free email service may be preferable, and you should set up an account with one of these providers before installing the D.net client.
3) Now, configure the client to run RC5. To do this, again go into the configuration menu, then type 2(Buffer and buffer update options) and then 9(Load-work precedence). From there, clear the "settings" line, and replace it with the following:
RC5,OGR=0,DES=0,CSC=0
Then press "enter" to save this new setting, then "0" twice to exit the configuration screen and save any new settings.
4) Run the client to complete at least one "work packet". Then, if the client window is not visible, left double-click on the cow's head icon in your taskbar, and perform your first "update" (under the Network dropdown). You can minimize the client at this point, if you wish, and allow it to continue cracking keys until you join Team AnandTech (all keys will be credited correctly later on).
==You must wait at least 24 hours before proceeding to the next step==
5) You now need to get your password. To retrieve it, please go to http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/. In the "Participant Stats" search box, enter the first portion of your email address, and click search. It should return, possibly among others, your specific email address as you entered it in the client software during installation. Click on your email hyperlink on the page. On this new page (your personal stats page, for future reference - you may want to bookmark it), there is a button at the bottom labeled "I cannot remember my password. Please email me my password". Click this button and the D.net server should email you your password within 10min. Note the password and retain the email for your archives.
6) Click on this hyperlink: http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=10635. This will take you to the Team AnandTech stats page at D.net (sometimes the page is down temporarily during stats updates, please wait an hour or two and try again). Near the bottom of this page is a hyperlink labeled "I want to join this team." Click it. Your browser will request a user name (your full email address), and a password (from the D.net email). Click OK.
7) It should then take you to your personal stats page, and near the top of this page it should read:
Team: 10635: AnandTech
8) That's it! All packets previously cracked will be credited to Team AnandTech at the next stats update, and all future packets will be directly counted as team submissions.
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Welcome aboard - we appreciate your contribution!
Please note that while you can switch teams at any time, only the team you first join will receive packets cracked when you were "teamless". Also, if you switch from "Team A" to "Team B", packets you cracked while on "Team A" will stay with that team, and you will be starting fresh with "Team B".
Of course, why would you want to switch teams? Team AnandTech has only been cracking since December 1998: as of this writing, we are at 2rd place overall in a field of almost 10,000 teams, and we are currently "juggling" between first and second place in the dailies, with our arch-rivals, The Dutch Power Cows. You've picked the right team to join - Team AnandTech!
Kind Regards,
Darrin (AKA Jackal)
and Ryan (AKA ViRGE)
- If you have questions, please make new threads in the Distributed Computing Forum with the question as the subject line, rather than asking them in this FAQ thread.
- Please directly email me suggestions for revisions rather than responding to this post, to ensure the thread is kept nice and compact for faster load times (virgedx@home.com). Include your AnandTech handle/nickname in the email.
- This FAQ thread will be "freshened" when revisions are made, and periodically between revisions.
~ If you would like to help Team Anandtech in Dnet's secondary contest, OGR, plese see ViRGE's "HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO ANANDTECH'S SECONDARY CHALLENGE, OGR" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=199122
- If you require information on multiple-machine and/or LAN cracking setup, please see Rob's "Shared Network Installation and Instructions" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187774
- If you have Linux systems and would like specifically targeted information on Linux RC5 setup, please see BPhantom's "Distributed.Net Client In Linux-HOWTO" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187776.
- If you have an old email address with which you have been cracking, and you require it be changed, please see Clay's "FAQ: HOW TO RETIRE A DISTRIBUTED.NET EMAIL ADDRESS " thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187770.
- To get on the Team AnandTech mailing list, see "A-star's" "FAQ: HOW TO JOIN THE TEAM ANANDTECH MAILING LIST " thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187772.
- If you want to chat on IRC with other Team AnandTech members, see Thunders IRC FAQ at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187771.
This FAQ is the result of Team AnandTech's hard work. So in that respect, it may only be copied if proper credit is at the top of the document, in which credit is given to the authors (Team AnandTech).
Originally written by Jackal/Posted and maintained by ViRGE
This FAQ (http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187766) explains how to get started using the distributed.net (D.net) client software to aid Team AnandTech in the RC5/OGR challenge(explained at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187777) on computers to which you have EXPLICIT PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER AND/OR OPERATOR TO RUN THE CLIENT ON. Please do NOT install this software on ANY machines you do not have such expressed permission to access or use.
If you understand and agree with the above statement, you may proceed.
-----
1) Go to http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html and download the appropriate client program for your CPU and Operating System. For Windows and most other OS's, a command line interface (CLI) client is what's available (the GUI is no longer officially supported). The Windows has both zipped and self-installing(reccomended) versions available.
1b) If you use the zipped version and WinZip, make sure WinZip is in "classic" mode, otherwise it will fail to extract all the files.
2) Install the client software. Under General Client Options, there is a field(#1) in which you must enter your email address. It must be a real, working email, because it is where D.net will email your password a little later on, and the password is required to join Team AnandTech. If you anticipate changes in your email address will be a common occurrence, a Hotmail or other free email service may be preferable, and you should set up an account with one of these providers before installing the D.net client.
3) Now, configure the client to run RC5. To do this, again go into the configuration menu, then type 2(Buffer and buffer update options) and then 9(Load-work precedence). From there, clear the "settings" line, and replace it with the following:
RC5,OGR=0,DES=0,CSC=0
Then press "enter" to save this new setting, then "0" twice to exit the configuration screen and save any new settings.
4) Run the client to complete at least one "work packet". Then, if the client window is not visible, left double-click on the cow's head icon in your taskbar, and perform your first "update" (under the Network dropdown). You can minimize the client at this point, if you wish, and allow it to continue cracking keys until you join Team AnandTech (all keys will be credited correctly later on).
==You must wait at least 24 hours before proceeding to the next step==
5) You now need to get your password. To retrieve it, please go to http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/. In the "Participant Stats" search box, enter the first portion of your email address, and click search. It should return, possibly among others, your specific email address as you entered it in the client software during installation. Click on your email hyperlink on the page. On this new page (your personal stats page, for future reference - you may want to bookmark it), there is a button at the bottom labeled "I cannot remember my password. Please email me my password". Click this button and the D.net server should email you your password within 10min. Note the password and retain the email for your archives.
6) Click on this hyperlink: http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=10635. This will take you to the Team AnandTech stats page at D.net (sometimes the page is down temporarily during stats updates, please wait an hour or two and try again). Near the bottom of this page is a hyperlink labeled "I want to join this team." Click it. Your browser will request a user name (your full email address), and a password (from the D.net email). Click OK.
7) It should then take you to your personal stats page, and near the top of this page it should read:
Team: 10635: AnandTech
8) That's it! All packets previously cracked will be credited to Team AnandTech at the next stats update, and all future packets will be directly counted as team submissions.
-----
Welcome aboard - we appreciate your contribution!
Please note that while you can switch teams at any time, only the team you first join will receive packets cracked when you were "teamless". Also, if you switch from "Team A" to "Team B", packets you cracked while on "Team A" will stay with that team, and you will be starting fresh with "Team B".
Of course, why would you want to switch teams? Team AnandTech has only been cracking since December 1998: as of this writing, we are at 2rd place overall in a field of almost 10,000 teams, and we are currently "juggling" between first and second place in the dailies, with our arch-rivals, The Dutch Power Cows. You've picked the right team to join - Team AnandTech!
Kind Regards,
Darrin (AKA Jackal)
and Ryan (AKA ViRGE)
- If you have questions, please make new threads in the Distributed Computing Forum with the question as the subject line, rather than asking them in this FAQ thread.
- Please directly email me suggestions for revisions rather than responding to this post, to ensure the thread is kept nice and compact for faster load times (virgedx@home.com). Include your AnandTech handle/nickname in the email.
- This FAQ thread will be "freshened" when revisions are made, and periodically between revisions.
~ If you would like to help Team Anandtech in Dnet's secondary contest, OGR, plese see ViRGE's "HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO ANANDTECH'S SECONDARY CHALLENGE, OGR" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=199122
- If you require information on multiple-machine and/or LAN cracking setup, please see Rob's "Shared Network Installation and Instructions" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187774
- If you have Linux systems and would like specifically targeted information on Linux RC5 setup, please see BPhantom's "Distributed.Net Client In Linux-HOWTO" thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187776.
- If you have an old email address with which you have been cracking, and you require it be changed, please see Clay's "FAQ: HOW TO RETIRE A DISTRIBUTED.NET EMAIL ADDRESS " thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187770.
- To get on the Team AnandTech mailing list, see "A-star's" "FAQ: HOW TO JOIN THE TEAM ANANDTECH MAILING LIST " thread at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187772.
- If you want to chat on IRC with other Team AnandTech members, see Thunders IRC FAQ at http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=39&threadid=187771.
This FAQ is the result of Team AnandTech's hard work. So in that respect, it may only be copied if proper credit is at the top of the document, in which credit is given to the authors (Team AnandTech).
