Hey Everyone,
For those who are interested, there is a new project which is breaking 56-bit DES encryption. I know that this has been done before, but the students who have been given this (or are doing it voluntarily?) have only one month to break the encryption, so it finishes on May 16th.
The stats page is a bit confusing, but I think they have only tested 0.11511% of the keyspace, so there is still a fair bit of work left.
Apparently we can create a team, but I haven't bothered yet, since I don't know of any other AMD Users who are contributing to the project.
More info here: http://albin.abo.fi/~ernylund/des.html
Stim
P.S. Be warned, the client starts with normal priority, you may want to lower it's priority after starting it.