Subject: Re: NetBSD MD5CRK team
To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Laverdure <dashevil@sympatico.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 03/12/2004 15:07:45
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 14:53, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> Well, it's probably no worse than looking for Little Green Men.
> 
> -Mike
> 

Don't bother, I already found them!

> 
> 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
> |