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I was just looking at some stats of the active users for RC5 today and it was only a few thousand, far less than it used to be back when RC5-64 was still active. I also realize that the current 72bit project will take forever, literally! Does anyone here run RC5 anymore? As far as I know it was the first widely popular distributed computing software, right up there with SETI when it first started.
Given the current trend of distributed computing projects what does the RC5 project accomplish? F@H and SETI at least seem to have some use once they are completed. What will the current RC5-72 project accomplish? Other than maybe proving that we can exhaust more keyspace?
Given the current trend of distributed computing projects what does the RC5 project accomplish? F@H and SETI at least seem to have some use once they are completed. What will the current RC5-72 project accomplish? Other than maybe proving that we can exhaust more keyspace?