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Re: RC5 crack
Fabrice Planchon <[email protected]> writes:
> Comme disait Adam Back ([email protected]):
> >
> > Been looking at the RC5 crack project.
> >
> > http://rc5.distributed.net/ has loads of flashy graphics, stats,
> > etc. but no instructions!
>
> seems they are in the final process of rewriting clients entirely, with
> a new protocol, etc... so they don't bother explaining how the old
> clients work. Still, I agree it sucks.
>
> here is the best that I found on that subject in the rc5 list archive..
>
> rc5.exe -l -a outland.hway.net -a2 rc5proxy.distributed.net -s -k 20
> [email protected]
>
> -l is logging (writes to a file)
> -a primary server to use
> -a2 secondary server
> -s shows status
> -k number of blocks to buffer local. The larger number the less you
> have to be online
The client I have which I downloaded yesterday complains most of those
arguments are illegal. I think the DOS version and the unix versions
have different usage.
Ben Byer <[email protected]> wrote:
> You want to download the "personal proxy", perproxy. It should be
> available on the same ftp site as the client. The proxy will buffer
> the keys and the answers for you... you just run the proxy on your
> machine, point it at rc5proxy.distributed.net, and you point your
> client at localhost.
This method works, in case any others are reading and trying this
under unix. It's still chewing keys this morning.
Adam
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