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Re: SSL challenge -- broken !



David Neal wrote:
>On 18 Aug 1995, Panzer Boy wrote:
>> John Pettitt ([email protected]) wrote:
>> : Huh?  So you run on 120 workstations worth how much?  to steal a credit
>> : card number worth how much?  Get real - there are hundreds of ways
>> : to get credit card numbers that cost less.
>>
>> Has anyone thought about starting up a distributed rc4 cracking web.
>> Send in your message to a web server form, it will then spawn of requests
>> to a pool of machines willing to try cracking rc4 for you.  Allow anyone
>> to offer up spare cycles towards the effort.
>>
>
>I suggested that very thing just yesterday in the list, but my message
>seems to have gone awry.  In short, I suggested we use E-Cash payments
>for cracking efforts.  This would establish a reward for participating
>and an 'exchange rate' for e-cash at the same time.

I'd we willing to set up a "crackweb" mailing list, or perhaps a site to
register your machine(s) with % available and MIPS ratings.

DJK