Team42

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RC5: What do you want to
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Members of Team42:
sec@42.org (Sec)
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eumel@42.org (Eumel)
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axel@42.org (axel_f)
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rotfl@rotfl.org (rotfl)
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ray@rc5.y.nu (ray)
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alex@vivien.franken.de (decay)
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KarlE@ixos.de (KarlE)
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cymric@poppen.de (Cymric)
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am@at-home.org (Houseman)
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opp@MuFFiN.Org (Pnose)
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x@x.nu (x)
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neko@greenie.muc.de (Neko)
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aulbach@em.uni-frankfurt.de (strange|)
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Last update: November 4, 1997

Hi and welcome to Team42's homepage!

``What is this Team42 and what the hell is it doing on my screen?'' you might be asking yourself right now. Team42's members come from irc channel #blafasel (irc server irc.blafasel.de) and most of them live in or nearby munich, germany.


What is this all about?

We are trying to beat the RC5-56 RSA Secret-Key Challenge. This means that we will have to find the correct key from 2^56 choices. As this is nearly impossible for a small group like us, we are donating our CPU power to the Cyberian RC5-56 project.

We want to show that the 56bit key is not that secure as the american government wants to make us believe it is. By breaking the key, we hope to improve encryption for a better world :-)

We've all got spare cpu-time, let's try to do something usefull with it.


Game over... :-)

We were quite a large and fast-growing team (at the end we were on rank 47 in the most calculated blocks list and stayed constantly in the top 10 of the currently fastest teams list. Have a look at an average statistic (from October 7, 00:40)!

The RC5-56 challenge is now over - and we had a lot of fun. On GMT October 19, 1997, the key was found by Peter Stuer donating his cpu-power to the distributed.net (Bovine) team. Congratulations!

Confirmed by RSA Labs, the key 0x532B744CC20999 presented us with the plaintext message: It's time to move to a longer key length.