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Internet News : RC5 competition cancelled
Posted by Ferry on 2007/6/8 3:55:35 (2426 reads) News by the same author
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As announced in Distributed.net news page and in Distributed Amiga, RSA Labs has decided unilaterally to cancel the RC5-72 Challenge:



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...RSA Labs has decided to terminate the RSA Secret-Key Challenge, which impacts the RC5-72 project and all of the remaining RC5 challenges. This means that RSA Labs will not confirm any solutions or award any additional prizes, should a correct solution be found. Furthermore, we have received a statement indicating that they will not be disclosing the solutions to the unsolved challenges.[...]

Although RSA Labs is halting their official sponsorship, there is still the option open to us to continue the project without their prize or validation. We would like to solicit your feedback regarding this option.Discussion is welcome on our rc5 mailing list (see http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/rc5 if you are not already a member). In the coming days, we will provide a facility to allow official votes to be made.

If the choice to discontinue the RC5-72 project is made, the official transition plan will be as follows: In one week's time from the announced decision, the distributed.net keyservers will begin indicating that the RC5-72 project is closed to all connecting dnetc clients. All results received after that time will be discarded.[...]

We intend to continue operating the OGRp2 project,[...]


Whether it will be definitely cancelled or not is still to be known. Time to switch to OGR-P2?

Source: message by David "Tactica" Rey in Casa Amiga, a Spanish Amiga users mailing list

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.


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Raziel
Published: 2007/6/8 7:55  Updated: 2007/6/8 7:56
Home away from home
Joined: 11/26/2006
From: a dying planet
Comments: 5413
 Re: RC5 competition cancelled
If i'd be cracking for this i would feel like "WTF?"

Of course, i only do OGR

Maybe now it's time to think about a client for Folding@home
IF the maintainers were interested AND the sources available

edit: Now i understand the sudden boost of OGR submissions on other teams
AmiGame
Published: 2007/6/8 14:31  Updated: 2007/6/8 14:31
Not too shy to talk
Joined: 11/22/2006
From: P'Boro, UK... Could that be ?
Comments: 496
 Re: RC5 competition cancelled
@Raziel

Hopefully, our team(s) will do the same...

//Crunching only OGR here...

Jerry
Outcast
Published: 2007/6/8 18:04  Updated: 2007/6/8 18:04
Quite a regular
Joined: 11/17/2006
From: Peterborough. Big-Bash-Shire. England, Distro:Ubuntu & Os4
Comments: 789
 Re: RC5 competition cancelled
Changed over to OGR 100% now too
Elwood
Published: 2007/6/9 16:01  Updated: 2007/6/9 16:02
Just can't stay away
Joined: 12/09/2006
From: Lyon, France
Comments: 1364
 Re: RC5 competition cancelled
I understand RSA labs here. It is obvious that one cruncher will find a solution one day, like it worked with previous projects. The only question is when?
But is it really important? I don't think so.

It's like the weather. One day we'll have rain so why should one bet some money on it?...
Raziel
Published: 2007/6/9 16:54  Updated: 2007/6/9 16:54
Home away from home
Joined: 11/26/2006
From: a dying planet
Comments: 5413
 Re: RC5 competition cancelled
While were on the subject...
IS there a possibility (source code available/willingness of the creaters/maintainers)
to get a client for another medicine based project?
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