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Originally posted by Pragma
I'd gladly donate my computers' time, but they all run the SETI@Home client. While I am very fascinated by cryptography, I can't quite convince myself that the RC5 challenges are useful applications of computing power.
SETI, at least, has an idea of what to do when they succeed - the RC5 folk just create a new contest (no offense to them).
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Yep. I did it for a while until I realized how trivial cracking that number was. If it took that long to crack (three years for the last one, IIRC), it is fine for most applications.
SETI I would consider.