RE: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack - NEO Project and other distributed computing

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:35 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Neo has been ping-ponging between working on RSA-576 and the Xbox signing key (2048 bits). I initially thought that that sounded irresponsibly silly of them. Now that I've read their web page, they seem a bit too disorganized and non-mathematical

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack - NEO Project and other distributed computing

2003-01-11 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: - A distributed computing like this needs several parts: - A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this; their FAQ really needs to be upfront about it, but it only talks

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack - NEO Project and other distributed computing

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:23 PM 01/11/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: - A distributed computing like this needs several parts: - A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this; their FAQ really needs to be upfront

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack - NEO Project and other distributed computing

2003-01-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:23 PM 01/11/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:47 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: - A distributed computing like this needs several parts: - A problem to solve - they seem to keep waffling on this; their FAQ really needs to be upfront

RE: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-10 Thread Trei, Peter
Eric Cordian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] michael cardenas wrote: What was the bit length of the rsa key that they factored? I probably should have highlighted this with more than an Oh my at the end of the exerpt, but the point of the quote was to poke some fun at the legendary ability of

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-10 Thread Eric Cordian
michael cardenas wrote: What was the bit length of the rsa key that they factored? I probably should have highlighted this with more than an Oh my at the end of the exerpt, but the point of the quote was to poke some fun at the legendary ability of the British IT Press to get breaking computer

It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Seems the folks at www.theneoproject.com have decided to continue work on factoring Microsoft's Xbox public RSA key. It's unlikely their random prime attack will amount to anything. Nonetheless, it's good to have examples of perfectly legal reverse engineering to counter all the DMCA hype. We

Re: It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cardenas
What was the bit length of the rsa key that they factored? On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:25:51AM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137916 The Neo Project began at the start of this year to try to crack Microsoft's private RSA-576 key by using a distributed computing

It's Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

2003-01-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Seems the folks at www.theneoproject.com have decided to continue work on factoring Microsoft's Xbox public RSA key. It's unlikely their random prime attack will amount to anything. Nonetheless, it's good to have examples of perfectly legal reverse engineering to counter all the DMCA hype. We