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Re: Bovine DES-II Challange - very important that you join
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that currently I'm the only one from the .il domain to register
> blocks for the Distributed.net DES-II challange. As the prise money
> is halfed after the first 45 days it is very important to try to beat
> DES-II within that time period.
I thought the DES client can't be downloaded out of US, because of US
export regulation.
AFAIK, RC5-64 Challenge was okay. and DES is for US only.
am I wrong here?
>
> For more details go to http://www.distributed.net/des/
>
> The clients for Intel (and maybe a few other platforms by now) have
> RC5-64 code integrated in them, so as soon as the DES-II is found
> they'll automatically switch back to work on RC5-64.
>
> Pleasepass-on the message.
>
> --Amos
>
> --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
> 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen
> Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England."
> ISRAEL amos@gezernet.co.il | -- Anonymous
>
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