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Greetings agent. You've discovered the information base for our RC5-64 code cracking project. You've already established yourself as an excellent field operative, your ability to hack government secrets is well known. Field work is no longer a top priority however. We'd like to recruit you for something slightly different. This assignment will be free of danger, all you need do is join our team and keep us updated while your data processing unit tests our decryption code.
There's little an agent can do these days with one game gone and another not yet prepared. To help pass the time and keep agents in communication, the Silencer RC5 team was started on January 12, 2001. The RC5-64 "Bovine" project is an attempt to crack an encoded message put forth by RSA Labs, run by the people at [Distributed.net]. It is only natural that there should be a team of Silencer fans involved in this effort to crack into another secret.
Becoming a part of the team is fairly simple. It's a just matter of downloading and setting up a small program that runs on your computers unused processing time. Basically, a computer running the software will spend it's free computing power cracking code instead of just idly eating electricity. Details should be found on [Distributed.net]. The rest of the information here is intended to help people set up the client and join the team.
By this time you've already installed the client and typed in your email address. It's straightforward, no problem. Done. But there's a little are a few steps necessary before you can become a Silencer team member. First, you will have to complete and upload an RC5 work packet. Second, you will need to wait about twenty-four hours. Then you will need to get your password. Finally, once you get your password, you'll be able to join the team.
Selecting "configure" either by right clicking the client or pulling it up from the start menu should get you a screen that looks like this:
distributed.net client configuration:
1) General Client Options
2) Buffer and Buffer Update Options
3) Performance related options
4) Logging Options
9) Discard settings and exit
0) Save settings and exit
Choice -->
Select 2) Buffer and Update Options. You should then see something like:
1) Buffer in memory only? (no disk I/O) ==> no
2) In-Buffer Filename Prefix ==> buff-in
...
8) Remote buffer directory ==>
9) Load-work precedence ==> OGR, CSC, DES, RC5
What you want to do is change 9) Load-work precedence so it looks for RC5 packets first. If you want to work on RC5 only, change it to: RC5,OGR=0,CSC=0,DES=0. Otherwise any combination with RC5 will get you started. Note that if you choose to work on other types your client won't automatically update until it's run out of information for every one of the other projects. Once this has been set up, let the program run until it finishes at least one packet. Then you can either tell it to update the buffers while you are online, or make sure it's set up to update automatically.
After you've uploaded at least one packet, wait twenty-four hours or at least until midnight rolls by.
Once your first packet has been processed, look at [http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/ ] and do a participant search for your own email address. You should see some information about how you are doing followed by a link you receive your password via email. If you don't then you either haven't waited the full twenty-four hours or you haven't submitted an RC5 packet. If you do, click the link and check your mail. Viola.
Got your password? Excellent, time to join up. You can either go back to [http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/ ], do a team search for Silencer and follow the link at the bottom of our info page, or else click the link [here]. Congratulations and welcome aboard!
