1995-08-25 - Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems]

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From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 3969b9ee8bcbebe78922a193386b361a0a680d4cffca3275cfcb22eb211dce67
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-25 00:59:45 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 17:59:45 PDT

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From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 17:59:45 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems]
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> "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com> writes:
> I can't contact the server to request keyspace anymore - I get a...
> It looks like 12 hours on a P5/90 are going to waste (could have done...

Live and/or learn -- looks like the performance is a little better now
that they're handing out bigger chunks.  The important thing is to learn
something new each time so the next one goes more smoothly.  Should be
nicer with hierarchical servers and so on for the next challenge... DES
or lobotomized DES or whatever.

Re: the title above.  Remember in "Princess Bride" where Prince Humperdinck
tells an underling to go search the forest and rout out the troublemakers?
When he complained of the difficulty, he was told to form a "brute squad".

	Jim Gillogly
	Sterday, 3 Halimath S.R. 1995, 00:59

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• 1995-08-25 (Thu, 24 Aug 95 17:15:36 PDT) - SSL Challenge: Server problems - “Peter Trei” <trei@process.com>
  • 1995-08-25 (Thu, 24 Aug 95 17:59:45 PDT) - Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems] - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
    • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 04:11:59 PDT) - Re: Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems] - Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
      • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 04:45:44 PDT) - improving the distributed computation - fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen)
        • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 05:04:35 PDT) - Re: improving the distributed computation - Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
        • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 09:52:18 PDT) - Re: improving the distributed computation - cg@bofh.lake.de (Cees de Groot)
      • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 13:42:22 PDT) - Re: Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems] - “J. R. Valverde (EMBL Outstation: the EBI)” <txomsy@ebi.ac.uk>
        • 1995-08-25 (Fri, 25 Aug 95 14:52:29 PDT) - Re: Cypherpunk Brute Squad [Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems] - Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
  • 1995-08-25 (Thu, 24 Aug 95 18:02:38 PDT) - Re: SSL Challenge: Server problems - Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>