According to distributed.net, the RC5-64 key has been cracked. It took more than 1700 days to crack the code. The interesting point is their comparison between Macs and Windows. At it's peak, 270,147,024 kkeys/sec were processed. This would be equivalent to about 46,000 Athlon 2Ghz systems running XP or 32,500 Powerbook G4/800s. That's 8307 keys per second per TiBook or 5869 keys per second for Athlon systems... 41.5% faster on Macs.
Pretty interesting, I thought. Just FYI. Bryan C. Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 598 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021010/11f24499/attachment.bin
