1997-01-31 - RC5-12/32/5 contest solved. Who gets a credit?

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From: Yuri Sorkin <sorkin@crl.crl.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1997-01-31 20:57:58 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:57:58 -0800 (PST)

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From: Yuri Sorkin <sorkin@crl.crl.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:57:58 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RC5-12/32/5 contest solved. Who gets a credit?
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stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:37:57 -0800 

At 09:55 PM 1/28/97 +0100, Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
wrote:
>challenge: RC5-32/12/5
>time: from start of contest until Tue Jan 28 21:54:58 1997
>method: massive distributed coordinated keysearch, details later

which was a bit slower than Ian Goldberg's crack, but pretty close.
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Huh!? Goldbeg's announce states that he spent about 3.5 hours, i.e. a
solution came not earlier than 12.30 PST, while Caronni got it at 11.55
am PST.

Yuri Sorkin






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