> Some thoughts as a follow-up to the latest news on the project status. > > I think it is a safe assumption that everyone here is interested seeing > a A5 break. And hope that small setbacks won't discourage participants. > > But I think this would be a good time to take a break and discuss the > approach that is being taken, as I think there are still some serious > issues that needs to be addressed. What I have in mind is the size of > the tables, and the unreasonable requirements that these place on the > participants of the project. The way things are now, participants need > to make the tables available online for a long long time after they have > been computed. This is not something I am interested in. I can write > code, use my GFX card to heat the house in winter, but I want to move on > to other projects when I am 'done' ... this project doesn't really have > an end in sight.
This is true. The lookup in the tables depends on a whole network of participants and participation is open ended. But as long as one new node joins for every node leaving, the network is still operating. transferring a table to get you started only takes a couple of hours on a standard dsl connection, compared to a month it takes to compute one. The situation is similar to a torrent that was once uploaded, but the initial seeder went on. As long as there are a people keeping it alive it will survive, until hardware is fast enough so that you can do the lookups on a single computer and you do not need a network anymore, or A5/1 has vanished into the museum. _______________________________________________________________ Neu: WEB.DE DSL bis 50.000 kBit/s und 200,- Euro Startguthaben! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
