Almost 65 % and still no key..

[deleted21]

doesn't this mean that we are pretty unlucky?

 

[LANMAN]

I look at it as, not much longer we can press on to other things.

Seems like forever though.

--LANMAN

 

[GeoffS]

Yeah well.... we don't even want to think that maybe the correct key was found during one of their... ummm... problems... and just lost.... Then we get to start all over!

Geoff

 

[zodder]

LOL at your sig change, Geoff. They are horrible, aren't they?

 

[BGod]

I don't want it to end until I make it into at least the top 500 or make it to 10M blocks. I should hit 6.4M by New Year's Eve.

Didn't JonB say he's found the key twice and just threw it back?

 

[networkman]

RE: Sabres

Can't be much worse than the Lions are here in the Michigan area. :disgust:

I also am one who believes the key was actually passed over in the loss of data some time back.

SETI has the same kind of problem though, cuz of those ARSEHOLE CHEATERS a while back that messed with the client to increase their stats. :disgust:

Grr..

 

[Train]

my guess is theres a lot more forged/invalid packets than most poeple think. We could hit 100% and be left clueless

 

[ViRGE]

In all honesty, Train's probably right in that there have been, and still are "bad" blocks comming in. While it's not suprising that we haven't found the key yet(65% out of 100% is a lot, but isn't the whole keyspace), it's definately possible that the "right" key was lost to a client bug, or a cracked block, ect. At the very least, the RC5 project is experimental; for something that was one of the first few projects(behind only the original RC5-56, and ECCp I think), it's not something that is going to be perfect in every way. The question when the project is over will be what went wrong, and how to fix it for the next big project.

 

[rc5]

Anyone here remembers another project done by d.net? CSC or something. No key found after we exhausted 100% keyspace. Then 120%, 140%, no key. It was till 160% or something when they finally found the key. On the bright side, it probably only take 2 years to redo the whole rc5 keyspace based on current hardware.

 

[Assimilator1]

65%? lol, I remember a major recruiting drive by the RC5 team over a year ago (fighting DPC) ,many people were giving the strong impression that it would be over soon! ,I remember thinking yeah right!.Still many people believed it & switched from SETI or whatever to RC5 for some time (hence SETI cavalry was born).Anyway the cpu time was still useful.

btw many people seem to think 'the key' has been missed ,for all you know it's in the last .01% of the key!

NWM
I think SETI resubmitted those forged results so that the WU's could be properly checked

 

[rc5]

It's 65.138% now without key found.

 

[Assimilator1]

I wouldn't worry about it until you get to 100%