Kevin McCoy wrote:

>All,
>
>Did you know that some dedicated OS/2ers have been competeing on your
>behalf for over 7 years, using our computers to solve some very
>difficult cryptographic and mathematic problems? 
>
>Did you know that Team Warped is in the TOP 10 teams in the world in
>one of the contests! This is out of thousands of teams, so its quite
>an honor to be this high in the rankings! By our high rankings, we
>show the power of OS/2 to the world - even when we are vastly
>outnumbered by other operating systems.
>
>Team Warped (OS/2) is currently working on two distributed.net
>contests. The first one, called RC5-72 is attempting to crack a
>commonly used cryptographic algorithm. The second is a mathematic
>algortithm called OGR-25.
>
>By "cracking", I don't mean *anything illegal*. It is simply a test of
>what kind of computing power and time is required to figure out the
>"password" of a sentence encrypted using RC5 encryption. Everyone
>knows the text of the sentence. The hard part is trying out every
>possible password. There are more possible keys than stars in the sky,
>so it takes a while  :-) 
>
>It is the OGR-25 contest where we are in the top 10, so we would like
>to concentrate on that one.
>
>Team Warped members donate computer time using a simple utility that
>runs in the background on your Warp, eCS, windoze or Linux box. The
>utility periodically downloads new blocks of possible "passwords"
>(keys actually) and tries to decrypt the encrypted sentence or work on
>another block of mathematic problems. Since the utility only uses your
>CPU when it is not being used for other tasks, you will likely not
>know it is running.
>
>To stay in the top 10, we need your help!
>
>You can help by downloading the appropriate "client" or utility from:
>
>http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php
>
>There are different clients for OS/2 (one client works on all OS/2
>flavors) and other operating systems. Make sure you download the
>correct one. Team Warped can use your help *even if some of your
>machines use other operating systems*, but we do prefer OS/2 and its
>variants  :-) 
>
>Next, _join Team Warped_, so that we get credit for the work your
>computer(s) do. If you don't join, you aren't helping us in the
>rankings!
>
>
>
>  
>
How do you join?  I clicked the link to join and it asks for userid and 
password.




 
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