[WarpCast] distributed.net & RC5-64 clients - 11/25/99




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Source: Erico Mendonca (slaughter@malaconet.org)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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I just checked my RC5-64 participant summary page at
http://distributed.net/ and got a message about new client upgrades:

  Warning! Warning! Warning! 

  You must upgrade your clients to build 446 or newer if you want
  your CSC work to be counted. Although some older releases and betas
  may appear to fetch and flush successfully to the proxy network,
  the work is being ignored at the keymaster level.

  Do NOT delete your CSC buffers when upgrading your clients. Doing
  so is unnecessary and only causes more network traffic. If your
  previous client (release, beta, etc.) successfully fetched CSC 
  blocks, they are still good and there is no need to delete them and
  re-fetch.

  If you run a personal proxy and wish to participate in CSC, you
  must download a new v311 proxy. Please download them from here 
  http://www.distributed.net/proxies.html

  Warning! Warning! Warning!

That explains why I suddenly dropped 94 positions in the ranking...
:(

The bad news are: there is no OS/2 client listed. And I don't know
who ported the previous one (Dirk?).

For those who haven't got a clue on what this is all about, RSA
promoted a contest to break the RC5-64 encryption. The Warped Team is
#3 in the ranking.
 
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