You may already have joined the TA RC5 team, if not, please ignore this post (I know none of you will 
). There is currently an Anandtech sponsored team working on the distributed.net effort to crack a message encrypted via the RC5-64 method. An inovative idea is being used to "brute force" this message by trying various 64bit keys until one works. This is done by spreading out sections of keys to various personal computers and having them crack those sections. This is completely legal and in fact encouraged by the originator of the message, so as to prove the strength of their encryption algorythm. The reason for this is to prove that 64 bit encryption is insignifigant and that the government should rethink its policys on encryption.
There are a number of other benefits to joining, you meet people in the Anandtech distributed computing program, you have a chance of winning 1000$ if your machine cracks it, checking stats and "racing" against other people is extremely fun, and on top of all this you prove the worth of the unused computing power of peoples personal computers.
One untrue comment many people make is that you must leave your computers running 24-7 to run this, that is not true, you just use your computer normally and the program automatically runs when the processor is not at 100% utilization.
If you are interested in joining check out the team anandtech website, and the Anandtech introduction. Thank you for your time,
). There is currently an Anandtech sponsored team working on the distributed.net effort to crack a message encrypted via the RC5-64 method. An inovative idea is being used to "brute force" this message by trying various 64bit keys until one works. This is done by spreading out sections of keys to various personal computers and having them crack those sections. This is completely legal and in fact encouraged by the originator of the message, so as to prove the strength of their encryption algorythm. The reason for this is to prove that 64 bit encryption is insignifigant and that the government should rethink its policys on encryption. There are a number of other benefits to joining, you meet people in the Anandtech distributed computing program, you have a chance of winning 1000$ if your machine cracks it, checking stats and "racing" against other people is extremely fun, and on top of all this you prove the worth of the unused computing power of peoples personal computers.
One untrue comment many people make is that you must leave your computers running 24-7 to run this, that is not true, you just use your computer normally and the program automatically runs when the processor is not at 100% utilization.
If you are interested in joining check out the team anandtech website, and the Anandtech introduction. Thank you for your time,
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