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[xxfenrirxx]

So I'm about to get trouted. Hoorah.

[Rand0m]

[Seej]

[Demzon]

I just started looking at all of this stuff a few days ago. I may be way off but I thought I might put in some information that my mind comes up with in regards to this card as everyone is working so hard at it.
George Boole died in 1864 december 8th. the person that came up with Boolean algebra and the idea for the AND, NOT, and OR operatiors in Boolean searches.
Here in the United States in 1864 the 13th amendment was added to the constitution. That was the amendment abolishing slavery and indentured servitude unless used as a punishment for a crime that had been prosicuded through the judicial system.
There are 5 cows imbeded in every AMD 80486DX4 chip. (viewable at http://www.molecularexpressions.com/creatures/pages/fivecows.html)
Also BASIC, and PL/I was introduced in 1964, and the first LAN was set up at Xerox Palo Alto. At Epson the first dot matrix printer is made for use with the Tokyo Olympics.
In the US military, TRANSIT came on line in 1964. Today we call it GPS.
My mind folows alot of strange tangents hopefully something in there is usefull in cracking this thing.

[nomadcelt]

Longhorn

[oliverkeers13]

It's already been mentioned: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Dinner's on me tonight, then:

[UKver2.0]

What? No vegetarian alternative? Bah!

[Nerd]

5 Million WUs!

[Demzon]

sorry, I was just posting what I found that I didn't notice as duplicated. Maby I blanked it out as it has been repeated so many times.

[Teebor]

I've dedicated two more machines to the mix (I will try and get more but no promises)

I don't have the card myself yet but so far I have been quite lucky with silvers (or should that be unlucky )

Given the cows and their refence to dstributed.net has anyone considered a key like tucows? (bearing in mind I have only read about half this thread yet)

or the very obvious five cows?

Its just from the silvers I have done (and blacks) the answer is always easier than it appears, and is usually staring you in the face

[QBKooky]

Yeah, people have tried a whole bunch of cow-like combinations (as well as many others), but Mind Candy has pretty much said we're doing it the correct way - since they estimated it would take x many computers y many months, that implies it must be brute-forced in this manner, because if it were just a matter of guessing the key, someone would have gotten it by now.

[Purdy]

First post

[mqpippin]

I think I'm going into Labour!

[FranG]

I'm probably not the best person to answer any of your questions, but I can't resist asking about elephant & bananana. Why those?

As to the code cracking, there's another thread for this card that's more oriented toward the combined assault. Look down the list and you should see it. Until the Wave 4 cards pushed everything down it was usually near the top.

Here's a link to the site for the client:
http://13thlabour.tk/

Join in. Just download the program and start it running. We're over 50% complete now.

Google rccrypt and you can read about the underlying program. There's also an online key tester and a compiled program, but I don't remember the addresses. They're somewhere in the other thread. None of these give much in the way of feedback.

They also have puzzles with card prizes on the Live Journal at the above link.

[themandotcom]

Also, RCCRYPT is a program used to encrypt/ decrypt the RC5 algorithim, which basically changes the plaintext in some way that is wayyyy too complicated to explain. So we are trying every possible key, so far to no avail. This is known as brute forcing! We know the key is 8 letters long, so we are guessing everyone.