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

> 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

Actually, it's impossible to do that way as well.  (The nice thing
about the MPQS/GNFS large-composite RSA cracks is that you can *check*
the "factoids" you get from each client on input, and there is no
"keyspace" there's just critical mass of relationships... but I
haven't seen any product-cipher crackers that have a property like
that.)  So you *still* end up having to trust people -- you might as
well actually *ask* them to take responsibility -- or make it
unnecessary (by *not* having a directed keyspace, you only get about a
factor of 2 increase in search time -- see Peter Trei's excellent
paper on searching for DES keys, the other RSA contest running
concurrently.)  If they're not going to trust me with a potentially
$10K chunk of keyspace, why would I trust them with a lot more than
$10K worth of my time/business if they *have* any nasty bits in their
code?  (Alternatively I could set up a no-syscalls trusted environment
for this code -- which would have the side effect of trapping the
successful key reports anyway -- but that's more time than it's worth...)

Sorry to rant, I just wanted to make sure people didn't make the
mistake of *believing* the key-space-safety issue :-)
								_Mark_


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