Well, it's probably no worse than looking for Little Green Men.

-Mike


On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

| 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
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