Floyd Dbird <dbird@language.bin.org> writes:
> MD5CRK is a new distributed computing project that is supposed to
> show the weakness of md5, much like the des crack challenges back in
> 1998 or so showed the weaknesses of DES.
>
> I arranged for them to produce a netbsd i386 port of the client at least.

Why is this a valuable use of CPUs and electricity?

Cracking DES was valuable because many claimed it could not be done
even though it was known weak. Cracking RC5 and finding MD5
collisions seems much less useful.

.pm