Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 23:58:46 -0300 From: madodel at ptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] Net: Team Warped moves into 9th place. ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Kevin McCoy After a year or two as the 10th ranked team on Distributed.net's OGR challenge, Team Warped has moved up a spot to number 9. We shot past "Ars Technica Team Roast Beef", trouncing them with a key completion rate over 3 times greater than theirs. This is very significant, as they have 130 more members than we do, and who knows how many more computers working on the challenge. Many thanks to all the Team Warped members, especially the ones that joined recently! Visit our Team Warped web site and see how _you_ can help us move up even higher in the rankings: http://idk.serveftp.net:81/cowboy/participant.html Click on the links under "Cowboy Information" for information about the contest, how to join the team, and how to post your up-to-the-minute statistics on the site. If you have a fast computer (or better yet, lots of fast computers), show them off on the site. "Cow", by the way, refers to Cluster Of Workstations - hence the site name and some really bad puns. ;-) This site is free, has no advertising and does not collect any personal information. It is provided as a service to the OS/2 community by IDK, Inc., the maker of KeyRing/2. Contact cowboyadminDESPAM at DESPAMidk-inc.com for more details and help getting set up. Here is a short description of the contest that I posted a few weeks ago: Did you know that some dedicated OS/2ers have been competing on your behalf for over 7 years, using our computers to solve some very difficult cryptographic and mathematic problems? Did you know that Team Warped is in the TOP 10 teams in the world in one of the contests! This is out of thousands of teams, so its quite an honor to be this high in the rankings! By our high rankings, we show the power of OS/2 to the world - even when we are vastly outnumbered by users of other operating systems. Team Warped (OS/2) is currently working on two distributed.net contests. The first one, called RC5-72 is attempting to crack a commonly used cryptographic algorithm. The second is a mathematic algorithm called OGR-25. By "cracking", I don't mean *anything illegal*. It is simply a test of what kind of computing power and time is required to figure out the "password" of a sentence encrypted using RC5 encryption. Everyone knows the text of the sentence. The hard part is trying out every possible password. There are more possible keys than stars in the sky, so it takes a while :-) It is the OGR-25 contest where we are in the top 10, so we would like to concentrate on that one. Team Warped members donate computer time using a simple utility that runs in the background on your Warp, eCS, windoze or Linux box. The utility periodically downloads new blocks of possible "passwords"(keys actually) and tries to decrypt the encrypted sentence or work on another block of mathematic problems. Since the utility only uses your CPU when it is not being used for other tasks, you will likely not know it is running. To stay in the top 10, we need your help! You can help by downloading the appropriate "client" or utility from: http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php There are different clients for OS/2 (one client works on all OS/2 flavors) and other operating systems. Make sure you download the correct one. Team Warped can use your help *even if some of your machines use other operating systems*, but we do prefer OS/2 and its variants :-) Next, _join Team Warped_, so that we get credit for the work your computer(s) do. If you don't join, you aren't helping us in the rankings! Thanks for joining! Kevin McCoy President, IDK, Inc. -- Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6-9 http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe 2005 - Where/When? Stay tuned to http://www.warpstock.net [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end Or, visit http://www.os2voice.org/MailingLists.html If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org