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| Active Projects - Math & Strategy Games |
Distributed.net is currently running two volunteer computing efforts. Project OGR - This project searches for Optimal Golomb Rulers. A Golomb Ruler is a set of points upon an imaginary line where no points are the same distance apart and all distances between points are a non-negative integer value. An Optimal Golomb Ruler is the shortest Golomb Ruler for a given number of points. Optimal Golomb Rulers become exponentially more difficult to discover as the number of points increase. Project OGR is now working on finding a 25-point OGR. One real-world application of an Optimal Golomb Ruler is the design of antennas. Project RC5-72 - The theory with Project RC5 is - if we try every possibility we will eventually find the right one. Otherwise referred to as a brute force attempt, RC5 is trying to crack the RC5 encryption key by guessing every possibility until the correct code is found. Using this same method, the 56-bit key was found in 250 days and the 64-bit key was found in 1,757 days. The current key is 72-bits. RC5 is an encryption technology that involves a variable block size of 32, 64 or 128 bits, a number of rounds that ranges from 0 to 255 and a key that can range from 0 to 2040 bits. The first organization to crack this key will be paid $10,000 by RSA. The $10,000 will be divided as shown here. This project has been ported to BOINC Platform using the BOINC wrapper application.
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