Re: RC40 and what we still need to do

[Matthew James Sheppard <Matthew.Sheppard@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>]

The shadowy figure took form and announced "I am "Robert A. Hayden" and I say ...
> However, I think there is still value in writing the software that will 
> allow cooperation amoung hundreds or thousands of people.  That way, we 
> could harness the space CPU of machines all over the globe and make the 
> cracking of this kind of stuff routine.
> 
> I'd anticipate with proper advertising, easy-to-use software, and 
> little programming knowledge require, we could easily harness 10,000+ 
> machines and a few dozen parallel machines.

A generalised distributed compute server would be powerful, a
participant would only have to compile the server and ensure it's
running.  It would compile and run cracking code only if signed by say
four principal participants.

The central coordinator service would want to send the following
instructions (every communique would be signed & checked):
	1) accept code & run
	2) report progress
	3) stop
	4) some management of keys, where perhaps any 3 principal
	   participant keys could revoke or add others for
	   evolutionary purposes.

Just an idea, probably old.

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