Re: RC5 Challenge - Linux at Top

David Sowder (davids@cosmic.swau.edu)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:03:47 -0600 (CST)


On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Nathan Bryant wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, David Sowder wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> >
> > > There's nothing phony going on. The RC5 challenge has been going on for a
> > > while; recently somebody on the LinuxNET IRC network proposed that we
> > > should all set our clients to be from linux@linuxnet.org, and if we win
> > > the money will be donated to LI.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Sources are available for the RC5 keyspace-search client. You should read
> > > the source before you worry about it uploading your password file.
> >
> > Where are can I get a copy of sources from and/or where can I found out how to
> > get the sources for the RC5 keyspace-search client?
> >
> > AltaVista wasn't telling me if it knew.
>
> Sorry! I spoke too soon. I'd thought that somebody mentioned the sources
> were available, but I was wrong. :( They aren't available for
> export-control reasons, and because somebody could modify them to send
> crap to the server.
>
> I've heard talk, though, that they may be available tomorrow. We shall
> see.
>
> Let's take this thread off linux-kernel, folks, okay?

I just downloaded the source from

ftp://ftp.genx.net/pub/crypto/rc5/rc5-client-2.01.tar.gz

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