Date:  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:46:04 -0400
From:  madodelatptdprolog.net
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: RC5-64 HAS BEEN SOLVED!

From: "Bencivenga, Robert L." <r.bencivatradium.ncsc.mil> 

For those that are interested. [Editor's note: There is an RC5/DES OS/2
client and an OS/2 team working on the contest - Team Warped. ]  It was
announced by RSA Labs that the RC5-64 project found the winning key from
Distributed.net.

On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the
winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03
produces the plaintext output:  

The unknown message is: some things are better left unread  
Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on
the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically detected.
It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was immediately submitted
to RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.  

For the rest of the report go to the following link.
http://distributed.net/pressroom/news-20020926.html


Distributed.net does say that they are looking into further projects in
the future. 

Bob Bencivenga
OS/2 Die Hard

Team Warped:
http://stats.distributed.net/team/tmsummary.php?project_id=5&team=112
                           

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