:: 20-Jan-1999 06:43 (Wednesday) ::
Well, it’s now “official”, although there was little doubt as to the
outcome. EFF will be the non-profit receiving the US$6000 portion of the
prize money from RSA Labs. Here’s how it works…
We (distributed.net) receive US$10,000 from RSA Labs, which is
divided up as follows:
Selected non-profit: EFF (http://www.eff.org) US$6000
Guy who found the key: John Gilmore US$1000
John’s Team: 1661, Libertarians for Privacy US$1000
distributed.net US$2000
For more detail on how this was determined, you’d invited to view
http://rc5stats.distributed.net/money.html
Also, the final DES-III stats are up and published. Just as a point of
explanation, the numbers slightly differ from the 22.2% complete figure
as announced in all the press releases. This is just due to slight
differences in how we had to cut the data. The 22.2% complete figure is
accurate as of 14:15, when Deep Crack submitted the winning key. stats,
however, run on one-hour incremental logs, so the stats database is
actually calculated through 14:59. The slight overage reported on stats
is the result of this 44 minute differential. Sorry for any confusion.
Again, ignore the keyrate information, since it’s not dealing with a full
day of stats. Remember, this is a /cool/ thing that we didn’t manage to
do a full 24 hours. :)
Anyway, I’m down for a decent night’s sleep, it’s only ~01:00 local
(that’s nearly six contiguous hours of sleep!) Thanks again to all the
participants who make this possible. We really kicked ass this time.