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BooRadley · 04-22-2003, 04:49 PM

I ran RC5-64 last year constantly. They found the key in july, yet let us continue to work until late october. Millions of CPU hours, wasted. Even though CPU hours are essentially worthless, the Kw-hours that people paid for their crack-racks and unused pcs cracking keyss would mount into the thousands of dollars.You'd think they just don't give a crap about the whole project in general, even though it has a cool premise.

Now they have RC5-72, and the current prediction is 680,000 days to complete (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Does anyone still waste their time and CPU power doing such a distributed computing project as distributed.net?

04-22-2003, 04:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
BooRadley Insane Location: Kentucky	Distributed.net- Waste of time? I ran RC5-64 last year constantly. They found the key in july, yet let us continue to work until late october. Millions of CPU hours, wasted. Even though CPU hours are essentially worthless, the Kw-hours that people paid for their crack-racks and unused pcs cracking keyss would mount into the thousands of dollars.You'd think they just don't give a crap about the whole project in general, even though it has a cool premise. Now they have RC5-72, and the current prediction is 680,000 days to complete (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Does anyone still waste their time and CPU power doing such a distributed computing project as distributed.net? Last edited by BooRadley; 04-22-2003 at 06:59 PM..