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WE FOUND IT! (fwd)
From: jason () MASTALER COM (Jason R Mastaler)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:51:13 -0600
------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:46:19 -0600 From: Rocke Verser <rcv () dopey verser frii com> To: deschall-announce () gatekeeper megasoft com Subject: WE FOUND IT! - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place." That's the message RSA has been waiting for us to decipher. And we did it! The correct key (8558891AB0C851B6) was reported to RSA Data Security shortly before midnight last night (Mountain Time). RSA's automated server acknowledged our win! The winning computer is a Pentium 90MHz, operated by iNetZ Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah. Their employee, Michael K. Sanders, was the individual who was running the DESCHALL client. Congratulations, Michael. And congratulations to all who participated! Many thanks are due, all around. Special thanks to Justin Dolske and Matt Curtin, who took enormous pressure off of me, early in the project; and who have kept the client archives, mailing lists, and gateways humming right along; and who diligently responded to *so many* questions on the mailing lists. Thanks very much! Special thanks to Darrell Kindred and Andrew Meggs, whose programming skill in their respective fields (fast bitslice clients and fast user-friendly Mac PPC clients) is unmatched! Special thanks to Karl Runge, who has spent many evenings into the wee hours (is 5 AM wee?) to develop some outstanding stats and to make sure those stats were posted each morning! Special thanks to Jeff Simmons, and others, whose names tragically escape me, who did some early publicity to get the project rolling! Special thanks to the other developers, Guy Albertelli and Kelly Campbell. Guy performed a number of "ports", and Kelly produced the first Mac client. Thanks to countless others, who devoted not just their CPU cycles, but their boundless energy as well. I offer both thanks and consolations to our only public "competitor", SolNET. Magnus and Fredrik: As I have said before, SolNET is a class outfit. I never once heard you disparage your competition. We thank you! In a sense, the "win" belongs to all of us, who contributed CPU cycles and clients and ideas and innovations. We searched less than 1/4 of the keyspace. Worldwide, over half of the keyspace was searched. A DESCHALL client may have found "the" key, but you deserve credit for helping to bring the "expected date of completion" significantly ahead. Your Web site gave us a goal to shoot for. A goal which we never met. Your clients had many features our users wished for. There is no shame in not finding the key. But I know the anguish you must feel after putting your hearts and souls into a project for 3-4 months, and not being "the" winner. In my eyes, everyone who participated, whether working for the DESCHALL team or the SolNET team is a winner! Last but not least, thanks to my dear wife, Myra, who allowed me to engage in this project (when I should have been looking for my next contract programming job); and to her and my children, who tolerated the disruption to our household routine caused by this project. - - - Rocke Verser, DESCHALL organizer, rcv () dopey verser frii com - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM6g4wXI7TKUAAAABAQGNrwQAyuvPPGgIaRMmveI/9MwbTq6SbNerD4A3 VluN2EW+GCvT1UiyTV2eQ3tJB+9f5RUVnQ77rqsVvME1Go0M1Vckq0VPzBdMYWgq laNv8tf4LEkSyu2LrfoLONyvrNmcByRmO8Bwt/QtqICK4gFpXcnoWXaCz4NG6iZf 6NtPgJnQh6o= =I+bG - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------- End of Forwarded Message
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