211:"DNETC" is the file name of the software application which users run to participate in any active distributed.net project. It is a command line program with an interface to configure it, available for a wide variety of platforms. distributed.net refers to the software application simply as the "client". As of April 2019, volunteers running 32-bit Windows with AMD FireStream enabled GPUs have contributed the most processing power to the RC5-72 project and volunteers running 64-bit Linux have contributed the most processing power to the OGR-28 project.
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client entered beta testing in late 2012 and was released in 2013. As of May 2024, OpenCL clients have completed more than 53% of all work on the RC5-72 project, and now performs about 85% of the work each day. No breakdown of OpenCL production by GPU manufacturer exists, as AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel
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123:, although in May 2007, RSA Security announced that they would no longer be providing prize money for a correct key to any of their secret key challenges. distributed.net has decided to sponsor the original prize offer for finding the key as a result.
119:-72 (breaking RC5 with a 72-bit key). The RC5-72 project is on pace to exhaust the keyspace in just over 40 years as of February 2024, although the project will end whenever the required key is found. RC5 has eight unsolved challenges from
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265:-enabled hardware, with the first completed work units reported in November 2008. On high-end NVIDIA video cards at the time, upwards of 600 million keys/second was observed For comparison, a 2008-era high-end single
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The RC5-64 challenge was solved on July 14, 2002 after 1,757 days. The correct key was "0x63DE7DC154F4D039" and the plaintext message read "The unknown message is: Some things are better left unread".
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588:"TACC's Lonestar 5 Supercomputer Now in Full Production"
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759:"distributed.net: staff blogs – 2022 – November – 23"
739:"distributed.net: staff blogs – 2014 – February – 25"
719:"distributed.net: staff blogs – 2009 – February – 24"
679:"distributed.net: staff blogs – 2004 – November – 01"
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Distributed.net's RC5-72 project is available on the
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February 1997 by
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574:"Distributed.net: Staff blogs – 2019 – August – 23"
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827:"stats.distributed.net - OGR-28 CPU Participation"
803:"stats.distributed.net - RC5-72 CPU Participation"
477:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
389:(after 1726 days and 83% of the key space tested).
431:(after 3199 days, confirmed predicted best ruler)
424:(after 1822 days, confirmed predicted best ruler)
410:(after 3006 days, confirmed predicted best ruler)
403:(after 1552 days, confirmed predicted best ruler)
360:RSA Lab's 56-bit DES-II-2 Encryption Challenge —
353:RSA Lab's 56-bit DES-II-1 Encryption Challenge —
350:(after 250 days and 47% of the key space tested).
126:In 2001, distributed.net was estimated to have a
417:(after 121 days, confirmed predicted best ruler)
382:(after 60 days and 98% of the key space tested).
371:RSA Lab's 56-bit DES-III Encryption Challenge —
98:Distributed Computing Technologies, Incorporated
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603:"Macho Computing at Root of RSA Contest Flap"
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346:RSA Lab's 56-bit RC5 Encryption Challenge —
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960:"Benchmark results for Radeon HD 5870"
560:"distributed.net mailing list archive"
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1203:Charities based in the United States
1016:David C. McNett (24 February 1998).
472:List of volunteer computing projects
304:Timeline of distributed.net projects
1046:. EFF. 16 July 1998. Archived from
779:"distributed.net: Client Downloads"
1072:. distributed.net. 16 January 2000
546:"RC5-72 Continuation Announcement"
229:Development of GPU-enabled clients
16:Distributed computing organization
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1208:Organizations established in 1997
853:. distributed.net. Archived from
427:Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR-28) —
420:Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR-27) —
413:Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR-26) —
406:Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR-25) —
399:Optimal Golomb Rulers (OGR-24) —
1148:"OGR-27 Completion Announcement"
516:from the original on 2023-09-17.
510:"RC5-72 / Overall Project Stats"
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1020:distributed.net. Archived from
962:. MrJackson2000. April 1, 2010.
1162:"Completion of OGR-28 project"
995:"RC5-72 Overall Project Stats"
655:"distributed.net: Project RC5"
631:"distributed.net: Project RC5"
169:algorithm that had a $ 10,000
115:Distributed.net is working on
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1198:Volunteer computing projects
916:"RC5-72 / CPU Participation"
364:(found independently by the
617:"What's with all the cows?"
601:Glave, James (1997-03-03).
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1018:"The secret message is..."
429:Completed 23 November 2022
422:Completed 19 February 2014
415:Completed 24 February 2009
355:Completed 23 February 1998
530:. rsa.com. Archived from
408:Completed 24 October 2008
401:Completed 13 October 2004
380:Completed 16 January 2000
373:Completed 19 January 1999
348:Completed 19 October 1997
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1092:"History & Timeline"
442:RSA Secret-Key Challenge
299:GPUs all support OpenCL.
160:RSA Secret-Key Challenge
96:time. It is governed by
152:Christopher G. Stach II
106:non-profit organization
387:Completed 14 July 2002
378:CS-Cipher Challenge —
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1193:Cryptographic attacks
831:stats.distributed.net
807:stats.distributed.net
496:"RC5-72 project page"
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201:Optimal Golomb Rulers
851:"Public source code"
108:under U.S. tax code
783:www.distributed.net
659:www.distributed.net
635:www.distributed.net
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86:volunteer computing
72:Current status
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1094:. distributed.net.
1070:"CSC project page"
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457:Brute force attack
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334:In progress
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275:AMD / ATI
179:SYN flood
148:Earle Ady
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605:. Wired.
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