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OIA Needs Your Idle CPU Time. Click Here For Info & Join Our RC5 Team
RC5 Team NOTE: This information was pulled from http://www.hardocp.com/rc5/rc5.html which is of course HardOCP's rc5 page. Since team membership information is going to be the same and they are not providing unique information, I have changed the team information to reflect the procedure to join the OIA team. THIS IS MEANT IN NO WAY TO PLAGARIZE ANY EFFORTS MADE BY OUR OVERCLOCKING BROTHERS AT HARDOCP. What is RC5? RC5 is a contest sponsored by RSA Security Labs that is run by Distributed.net to see who can crack the RC5-64 bit encryption key. Why should I join? RSA Labs is offering a $10,000US prize to the group that wins this contest. The distribution of the cash will be as follows:
OIA NOTE: The "$1,000 to the winner's team" prize will be put to use by funding further adancement of this web site (ie: web hosting and whatever else can make this site better). It is not intended to line my pockets. In the event that the team does win, I will address this issue in more detail. Hell....maybe it'll be heatsinks & peltiers for the team members (distributed in order of largest team contribution to smallest until funds run out). Lemme know what you think. What machines can run RC5? Any machine, on virtually any platform!!! Here is a partial list of currently supported platforms (with a link to download the client):
Any and every machine that can run these OSes can run RC5. Every block that is crunched helps, so even the lowliest of 486es is appreciated! Users can use multiple machines to their credit. The client supports SMP so those of you out there with dual CPU setups can fully utilize both of your CPUs and crunch away! 1) Go to http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.html and download the appropriate client program for your CPU and Operating System. For Windows and most other OSs, a command line interface(CLI) client is what's availible. The Windows version is self installing, and comes with help files and a log visulizer(For those who love stats). 2) Install the client software. Under configuration/general settings, there is a location in which you must enter your email address. It must be a real, working email, because it is where D.net will email your password a little later on, and the password is required to join Overclock Intelligence Agency. If you anticipate changes in your email address will be a common occurance, a Hotmail or other free email service may be preferable, and you should set up an account with one of these providers before installing the D.net client. 3) Run the client to complete at least one "work packet". Then, if the client window is not visible, left double-click on the cow's head icon in your taskbar, and perform your first "update" (under the Network dropdown). You can minimize the client at this point, if you wish, and allow it to continue cracking keys until you join Overclock Intelligence Agency (all keys will be credited correctly later on). ==You must wait at least 24 hours before proceeding to the next step== 4) You now need to get your password. To retreive it, please go to http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/ . In the "Participant Stats" search box, enter the first portion of your email address, and click search. It should return, possibly among others, your specific email address as you entered it in the client software during installation. Click on your email hyperlink on the page. On this new page (your personal stats page, for future reference - you may want to bookmark it), there is a hyperlink at the bottom labelled "I cannot remember my password. Please email (my) password". Click this link and the D.net server should email you your password almost immediately. Note the password and retain the email for your archives. 5) Click on this hyperlink: http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=90018117 . This will take you to the Overclock Intelligence Agency stats page at D.net (sometimes the page is down temporarily during stats updates, please wait an hour or two and try again). Near the bottom of this page is a hyperlink labelled "I want to join this team". Click it. Your browser will request a user name (your full email address), and a password (from the D.net email). Click OK. 6) It should then take you to your personal stats page, and near the top of this page it should read: Team: 90018117: Overclock Intelligence Agency 7) That's it! All packets previously cracked will be credited to the Overclock Intelligence Agency Team at the next stats update, and all future packets will be directly counted as team submissions. |
