From: Jonathon Blake <grafolog@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:18:06 +0800
To: Mark Cooke <mpc@star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Distributed Key Breaking
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	Mark:

On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Mark Cooke wrote:

> anyone considered writing a Java Applet that would could run key space 
> searches and factoring in an easily distributed manner.

	Interesting idea.

> This would seem to be a 'reasonable' way to gain access to more CPU power 

	And a "reasonable" way to get people who aren't interested in
	helping to break keys, by doing so ---- every time somebody 
	hits your webpage, they get held up for, say 3 minutes, to do
	a little keybreaking of their own.  

        xan

        jonathon
        grafolog@netcom.com




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