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Scott wrote: >The project hasn't started yet, but it's getting close. (SETI@home) from http://www.bigscience.com/: [recent news] January '98. The project is on hold until we can find an organization to take over the fundraising and promotional responsibilites. The ideal group would be a well-connected non-profit organization, although we are also pursuing individual corporations with the resources to underwrite the entire project. That doesn't look like a start getting close ;) RC5-64 is a nice intermediary thing to get our CPU's from getting tired... Like with DES-II, if something "more important" pops up we can change, and distributed.net will change as well. Finally, you might not only join distributed.net (http://www.distributed.net/), but also the Search For Mersenne Primes (http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm), the cracking of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (http://ashpool.hpl.hp.com/~ecc/ or http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/security/crackers/p97/) finding factors of the ten most wanted composite numbers (http://www.dataplex.net/NFSNet/), find new factors of Fermat numbers (http://www.mersenne.org/fermat.htm), find the best way to arrange circles within a square (http://www.omn.com/dboll/packing.html), or Help search for optimal Golomb rulers (http://members.aol.com/golomb20/index.html). Don't quote me on the URLs, or wether they have Linux programs, these are just what i found after a quick survey (to http://www.mersenne.org/ *g*) Regardless what, using idle CPU power for useful things is _always_ a good idea, so long, -forcer -- /* All the simple programs have been written. */ /* email: forcer@mindless.com.skip -><- www: http://www.forcer.base.org/ */ /* IRC: forcer (IRCnet @#StarWars) -><- 2048/191585A9 1997/11/29 forcer */ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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