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OK. Batch file is written.....running at around 28,000 words (all lowercase...will do uppercase after...) currently on e, will let you know if anything turns up.....

Confused

**Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:12 pm

hexDa3m0n

Nothing yielded, although I have now noticed someone tried this a while back....

Crying or Very sad

**Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:42 pm

Hobbess · Kl00 Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Glasgow

totally stuck on this one and Differently Lethal. Nothing much seems to be moving with either. Is the general feeling that the rccrypt tool is still the best way of doing this.

I have tried the odd word in this but to no avail and with no idea of knowing if it is successful. Are there any other options? Confused

**Posted:** Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:53 pm

tsh · Boot Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Cambs

Has anyone tried all 8-digit decimal numbers as strings? Seems like a suitably small set to try...

Sean

**Posted:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:46 pm

omicron sigma · Kilroy Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

Just an Idea Googled 'Five Cows' and came up with this

A string of five cows (or perhaps five cow skulls) appears on the surface of an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) 80486DX4 microprocessor. An anonymous engineer has informed us that the heads represent the internal codename given to the AM486-DX4 development project. The project's name was Longhorn, and was targeted to directly compete with the Intel 486-DX2

Can somebody try LONGHORN/longhorn/Longhorn

in the decrypt

See this link to see what it looks like.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/fivecows.html

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:55 am

Catsworth · Boot Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 20

If you count XP Home and XP Pro as two different versions then "Longhorn" will be the 13th version of Windows.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:29 am

Catsworth · Boot Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 20

I just tried Longhorn, LONGHORN, and longhorn

The problem is that I can't tell if it's doing what it should be doing because I just get returned to the Cmd prompt.....can I assume that if that happens I haven't got the right key?

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:31 am

angelsk · Boot Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 67 Location: London, UK

Anyone tried Claudius?

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:41 am

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donstobbart · Veteran Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 96 Location: Cumbria

Yes. I thought that Claudius may be a possibility, but it incorrect

Don

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:06 pm

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Hobbess · Kl00 Joined: 19 Dec 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Glasgow

Tried CLAUDIUS, Claudius and claudius and none worked. Still don't know exactly how to know if the program kicks out an answer, but I just keep getting returned to the command prompt so guessing it isn't right.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:09 pm

tsh · Boot Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Cambs

Since I've only just realised myself, it's probably worth pointing out that if anyone wants to subscribe to the brute force approach, the software to download is on page 11... (correct me if I'm wrong!)

Also, if anyone happens to stumble on a FPGA implementation of the decrypt, I have access to some moderately serious hardware, which could probably do millions of keys/ sec. All I can find on the web about this is 5 years out of date.

Finally, the longhorn connection is intriguing - maybe something to do with trusted computing?

Sean

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:07 pm

GasparLewis

Brute forcing, bad!
Go to Hmm..., and read what Scott said.

We should really try to be eloquent about this (not that we have a flippin' choice!).

**Posted:** Fri Dec 23, 2005 7:34 pm

Nightingale · Veteran Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 86

Do the five cows just symbolise the C5 for RC-5? If they do, maybe the answer is as simple as RC-5's designer - Ron Rivest.

I can't remeber if it is an 8 letter 'code word' that we're looking for so maybe it's 'Ronscode' or something similiar?

See wiki link for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC5

Nightingale

**Posted:** Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:12 pm

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Just got this card for xmas and i was thinking, has anyone tried putting the whole lot into google search, Maybe a bit of a silly question for my first post Rolling Eyes

**Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:24 pm

tsh · Boot Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Cambs

Re: Another lead

**Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2005 9:13 pm