Last updated Tue, 2 Dec 1997
Australian Dudes' Distributed HQ
The Dudes' RC5-56 Page
This page is here for posterity (I hate destroying anything I make - vanity?) We participated in one of the first distributed computing efforts ever, this was our news and statistics page. Things are much better now :-)
Team Numbers
Note that we completed just over 0.01% of the keyspace - not bad for a start.
It is cracked! The 56 bit key we had been working on for 173 or so days has been cracked - but before you give your computer a good night's sleep you can keep going with the 64-bit competition!
Since this was never solely about breaking encryption for the majority of our team, we are continuing with www.distributed.net's further projects. Right now, since RC5-56 was cracked a little sooner than expected, we are moving straight into RC5-64 bit (a problem 256 times larger than 56-bit!) Once the new version 3 clients come out, however, we will be able to devote our spare CPU cycles to such projects as finding the next couple of Mersenne Primes or perhaps making contact with alien civilisations. Stay tuned everyone, the ride has only just begun.
Since the stats have come back up so well, they also have team history data available. You can see the current history of our team's progress at distributed.net rather than my poor tired old listings that follow for historical interest.
Position Date Blocks Done Kkeys/sec 43 June 27, 1997 35,820 ~1850 50 June 18, 1997 25,117 1557.916 66 28 May 1997 10,936 1184.6 73 14 May 1997 4,963 1139.5 75? 11 May 1997 4,035 1117 ? 9 May 1997 3,165 1054 ? 5 May 1997 ? 671 ? 2 May 1997 270 360
Team Members (incomplete)
Here's a rough table that shows the make-up of our team. More or less anyway :-) If you'd like your machine on this list (and you're processing for the dudes, of course) just send a message to the mailing list (rc5-dudes@epage.com.au). While you're there you should subscribe as well (mail listserver@epage.com.au)
We have team members right across Australia : Melbourne, Sydney (were we began), Brisbane, Perth and even some ex-pats overseas : Chicago.
The figures quoted here aren't very consistent yet. I think the speeds we quote probably should be based on the real world rate reported by the Bovine stats engine or the client. Host searches have been disabled at distributed.net, so most of the following links won't work any more.
Herman & Russell Kkeys/sec CPU OS 40 486 ? 150 166MHz Pentium NT 500 200 MHz PPC MacOS ? PPC MacOS
BigIan Kkeys/sec CPU OS ? PowerMac 7600/120 MacOS ? PowerMac 7600/120 MacOS ? PowerMac 7100/80 MacOS ? PowerBook 5300/117 MacOS ? Quadra 650 MacOS
Jeremy Kkeys/sec CPU OS 520 Silicon Graphics Irix Many more machines to be listed
Colin Kkeys/sec CPU OS 43 486 DX2/66 Win 95 119 6x86-166 Win 95 137 P-150 Linux 2.0.29 179 P-200 Linux 2.0.29 63 486DX4/100 Linux 2.0.29 47 Dual 486-33 NCR MP-RAS 2.03 91 P-100 BSDI 2.1 68 P-75 BSDI 2.1
Epage (Matthew, Cain, Ken, Jodie, Scott) Kkeys/sec CPU OS 3 M68030 25MHz MacOS 7.5.5 73 100MHz Pentium Win 95 73 133MHz Cyrix 586 Win 95 36 133MHz Cyrix 586 Win 95
Peter (PC) Kkeys/sec CPU OS 39 Sparc 5 Solaris 2.4 Sbg & Ian Kkeys/sec CPU OS A lot Sparcs Mostly Solaris I expect Too many to list here Team F'nee (House'O'Fun) Kkeys/sec CPU OS 118 Pentium 133MHz Win 95 78 AMD 120MHz Win 95
Melbourne Department
Zaph & JonKkeys/sec CPU OS 547 PentiumPro 200MHz Win 95 69 Indy R4000 Irix 48 PPC AIX 38 PPC AIX 79 SP node parallel cluster machine 79 SP node POWER2 chip 79 SP node parallel cluster machine 79 SP node POWER2 chip ? Pentium 133 NetBSD
Brisbane Department
GrantKkeys/sec CPU OS 144 Pentium 120MHz Linux 2.0 Ex-Patriates
Jeff in ChicagoKkeys/sec CPU OS 240 Cyrix P166+ Win95
Dudes' RC5-56 page / psyke@arrakis.com.au