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Re: Prizes, and coordinated vs uncoordinated search, redux.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toto)
Fri Feb 21 15:45:31 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:12:05 -0800
From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: trei@process.com
CC: cypherpunks@algebra.com, cryptography@c2.net, trei@toad.com,
des-pr@lists.des.crypto.org, des_challenge@muffin.org
Peter Trei wrote:
> If the coordinated groups don't want to share their
> keyspace maps with others, that's their business.
> Effectively, they become just another uncoordinated
> searcher (though a very fast one). If a coordinated
> searcher does publish it's map, then people who trust
> it can use the data to avoid going over old ground.
If a person working on their own wishes to avail themselves
of the key-search tracking offered by those who want the money
to go to their own private interests, but not support those
interests, then they can use their software to get the next
available key, run the program at a low priority, and run
the same key through their own separate cracker at a higher
priority.
Toto
