Re: SSL Challenge: Are we in trouble?

[Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

> Well, the server appears to be unable to serve cgi scripts - I get 
> '500 - server error' whenever I try. I cannot report the ~500 segments
> I swept overnight, nor get new keyspace.

Try again ...

> I thing it's gotten to the point where the server is the bottleneck on 
> this operation

Has been on & off for some time :-((

> - we seem to have plenty of cpu for sweeps. This will damage our primary
> goal - to demonstrate how fast 40 bits can be swept.

Well, my tertiary goal ...

> Piete, Adam, could you put a note on the /bute/ root page describing the
> server status?

Done.

In brief -- you guessed it -- upgrade to http://www.brute.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/pub/
brute/brclient 0.16 and ACK should go a lot quicker, and as people move over 
to using 0.16, so will allocates ...