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Re: [OFFTOPIC] RC5 Challenge: We're in the top 15!!

Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> wrote:
> Oops, 
> >>   Source code may, or may not be released, at our own discretion.
> 
> So much for having a debian package.  So much for my running it :-)
> Anyone know which of the challenge teams *is* using source?
> 

    Yes it is a pity there is no source, the problem in distributing source is
that you need some way to authenticate that the client has *really* searched
their keyspace.  This is difficult to do without actually getting the client
to send proof of tests and the server retesting them, which obviously defeats
the purpose of having clients working on the problem ;).  In other words
all the security is in the client, not good but hard to do any other way, not 
distributing source appears to me to be the only way of waking it non-trivial 
for someone to misreport their key-searches (imagine if the evil misreporter
was actually given the space with the solution in it, many years of computer 
time down the toilet!).

Richard Jones.




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