For those that are interested. [Editor's note: There is an RC5/DES OS/2 client and an OS/2 team working on the contest - Team Warped. ] It was announced by RSA Labs that the RC5-64 project found the winning key from
Distributed.net.

On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03 produces the plaintext output:

The unknown message is: some things are better left unread Unfortunately, due to breakage in scripts (dbaker's fault, naturally) on the keymaster, this successful submission was not automatically detected.
It sat undiscovered until 12-Aug-2002. The key was immediately submitted to RSA Labs and was verified as the winning key.

For the rest of the report go to the following link.
distributed.net


Distributed.net does say that they are looking into further projects in the future.

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