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Flynn · Decorated Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 240 Location: UK

Bear in mind, there's no way of knowing if it's the correct key until we try the answer at the PXC site. If memory serves, the client will say something like "possible match", and send it to chimera. There will be lots of false positives that will need to be gone through to find text that is legible, and then any likely candidates will need to be tried.

So no, it won't say "woooo, you found the answer" - it can't know if it's right or not. It will let you know if it's found a possible though.

**Posted:** Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:58 pm

poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

**Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:46 am

Grizy

I'm running the client on my 1.5Ghz Centrino flaptop.
It does a WU in about 17 min.
The processor runs at about 97%.

The cooling fan for the processor is on permenantly.
My leg is getting extremely warm. (It vents hot air through the bottom of the case)
Should I be worried?
Where can I buy some asbestos trousers?
Laughing

**Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:42 am

Frenzy · Boot Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Canada

Speaking about leaving computers on all the time (which I normally don't), does anyone know a rough way of calculating energy consumption?
I have an Athlon 64 3200+ running off a 480W power supply. My wife was wondering how much this was gonna cost us in electricity, so I got to thinking how much it will cost to solve this puzzle. Anyone have any guestimates?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:54 pm

poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

The power supply rating is irrelavent, the computer will only use the what it needs, if it needs 300w it'll use 300w, if it needs 400w it'll use 400w (up to 480w).

I don't know power usages of CPUs (or the rest of the machine) so can't help but a couple of recomendations, turn off the monitor when not in use, turn or other things (speakers, printers, etc.) when not in use.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:23 pm

locqust

**Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:50 am

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groovygirl20

or maybe it was just "the thirteenth labour" or something really simple and we'll all be kicking ourselves lol

**Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:43 am

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locqust

Quite possibly! All the other answer so far have been fairly obvious once they were solved. Of course that could be partly due to hindsight being 20/20... Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:04 am

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DarkHuman

ok, i'm running win xp on a pent3, downloaded dotnet and the 13labour, still getting ....ok i'll shut up. didn't extract the 13th file. Embarassed

well, i'm one more and i'll be running it here 24/7.....now to attack all 15 computers at work. about 3-4 will be running 24/7 too if i can get it running on their systems. Wink

here's hoping we get it!

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:13 am

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Relish

so who here has the card to test possible answers?

i do but perhaps it would be handy to have a list

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:29 am

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bertyb · Veteran Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

I have a copy of it.

Perhaps the attack website could have a feed where peeps could put in there names if they have the card along with mail addresses, then the website could send out a list of 3 possible answers to all the mail addresses on that list, who could then update when it is wrong, until the day somebody gets to the promised land of a correct answer page.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:40 am

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Intriguing!!

oliverkeers13

We'll know when we have the right answer, there's no need for that.

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:41 am

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bertyb · Veteran Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:45 am

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Intriguing!!

oliverkeers13

If it receives a result where all the characters are within a certain range of ascii (i.e. alphanumeric characters) then he gets a message and the text comes up. He then looks at it, if it looks likely, he'll try it, or send it to someone else to try (probably guin as he's done all the sitework). If it works, it gets posted here, if it doesn't, we carack on!

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:03 am

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bertyb · Veteran Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

So it must be unlikely that it will generate a large number of possibles to try in any given 24 hour period then.......

**Posted:** Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:42 am

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Intriguing!!