Where to get your RC5 crackers

Bill Stewart stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jun 19 20:50:18 PDT 1997



At 07:15 PM 6/19/97 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
>It seems that the RC5 cracking effort had no idea about the loads their web
>server would be subjected to once thousands of DES crackers moved over to
>cracking RC5. Their NT based webserver (bad idea...) collapsed. While it
>recovers, you can still get the client software from
>ftp://ftp.distributed.net/rc5/

Sounds like a job for Broadcasting!  Anybody who has a copy want to
post it to Usenet?  (It also sounds like a job for web caching proxies at
ISPs.)

#			Thanks;  Bill
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