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Internet News : RC5 competition cancelled

Posted by Ferry on 2007/6/8 2:55:35 (2543 reads) News by the same author

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 6:55 Updated: 2007/6/8 6:56
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5622	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 13:31 Updated: 2007/6/8 13:31
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 17:04 Updated: 2007/6/8 17:04
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 15:01 Updated: 2007/6/9 15:02
Just can't stay away Joined: 12/09/2006 From: Lyon, France Comments: 1375	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 15:54 Updated: 2007/6/9 15:54
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5622	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?