:: 18-Jan-1999 08:24 (Monday) ::
Hi everyone!
In lieu of my traditional “3am before DES contest” announce post, I’ll just
update my plan.
Everything looks to going very well in terms of proxy network organization
for tomorrow. DES-III begins at 17:00 GMT, which is noon EST, 11am CST,
09am PST, etc.
If you’re interested in watching the contest take off in a few hours,
join us in #distributed on efnet. My scripts which enable DES on the
keymaster and proxynet will be broadcasting events to the channel.
If you haven’t done so already, PLEASE upgrade your clients. The new
ones (http://www.distributed.net/clients.html) are faster, more featureful,
and have less bugs.
I’ve received lots of questions about EFF’s Deep Crack. John Gilmore
and I have been working together over the past week to integrate his Deep
Crack system with distributed.net. It’s all a go, Deep Crack will be
checking DES keys for distributed.net at the rate of 88 billion keys
a second.
We’ve worked with RSA on putting together some live contest statistics.
These are available at http://www.rsa.com/conf99/des/
For more information about distributed.net’s DES project Monarch,
check out http://www.distributed.net/des/
Good Luck!
Daniel Baker