I did the RC5 thing for a while, then I did the math and realized it
would take about 22 years to process all of the keys.  So I switched to
seti@home - we'll find aliens before we crack RC5.

George


foodog wrote:
> 
> Tyler Hall wrote:
> >
> > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
> >
> > We're searching for aliens!
> 
> We're making spooks vaguely uneasy :-)
> 
> See http://www.distributed.net/rc5/ to help
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> xxxxxx@xx.xxxxxxxx.xxx's stats
> 
> Current Ranking         8,341 (7)
> Total Blocks to Search: 68,719,476,736
> Total Blocks Tested:    690,102
> Keyspace Checked:       0.00100423%
> Total Keys Tested:      185,247,845,056,512
> Time Working:           796 days
> Overall Rate:           2,694 KKeys/sec
> 
> 1,525 blocks were completed yesterday (0.00000222% of the keyspace)
> at a sustained rate of 4,738 KKeys/sec! Ranked 6,570 for the day.
> 
> The odds are 1 in 30,753 that this participant will find the key before
> anyone else does.
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