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poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

Yup, still 10

**Posted:** Fri Sep 01, 2006 4:18 pm

Teebor · Boot Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 67

Hi,

I hate to do this but my PC crashed and I tried to restart the client yesterday (several times) and left it overnight but its not reconnecting.

I think its just my PC but wanted to check as I can't find a fault with it.

Cheers.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:41 am

zoltan

mine was running fine a few hours ago (until i turned it off to get some work done).

and overnight i went past 20,000 work units Jetpack

**Posted:** Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:11 pm

hairysocks

Sorry for sounding ignorant, but what is in a "work unit" - is it a batch of keys that keys tried with rccrypt, or is it a batch of files that have come out of rccrypt? And how many such things are in a work unit?

**Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:38 am

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mac_monkey · Decorated Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 250

Currently a work unit is a bunch of keys the client crunches before getting another bunch.

At the moment there are around 14.7million keys per work unit.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:47 am

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chimera245 · Decorated Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 209

Just an update.

I have just about completed development work in the Phase 2 client and once I complete internal testing (most likely by the end of the week) this will enter test use in parallel with the existing production client.

This client (1.4.0) will (when operating in Phase 2 mode) add several punctuation characters to the keyspace to continue the search, assuming (as now seems likely) that the pure Alphanumeric keyspace is exhausted without an answer being found.

More information should be available through www.13thlabour.tk as testing progresses

**Posted:** Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:13 pm

cmlobue · Veteran Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 112

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:41 am

32_footsteps

You know, with the prospect of adding punctuation coming up, I just realized something.

The thought of adding a period made me chuckle at first. "Heh, reminds me of the old days of trying to name files on DOS. eight letters, dot, extension."

... xxxxxxxx.xxx ...

Right about then, it hit me that we're trying to find a twelve-character string.

Maybe we're supposed to be looking for a file name. It would make perfect sense, if it was a file name that we're supposed to find, something along the lines of skiteway.jpg (not that I expect that to be the answer, mind you, but just as an example). Heck, it could be something as simple as 13labour.exe or the like.

I'm all about continuing the brute force method, but maybe we should prioritize searching names that look like computer file names, first.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:19 am

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Rand0m · Decorated Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 271 Location: London

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:02 am

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**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:09 am

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Teebor · Boot Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 67

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:46 am

Guin

Update

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:23 am

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**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:04 pm

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nomadcelt · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Is it possible to see the output of the application used to attempt to decrypt this? I have a horrible fear that the answer has been overlooked. Perhaps it's my natural cynicism where computers are concerned.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:11 pm

nomadcelt · Boot Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 12

Is it possible to see the output of the application used to attempt to decrypt this? I have a horrible fear that the answer has been overlooked. Perhaps it's my natural cynicism where computers are concerned.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:21 pm