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Message-ID: <44BEA329.3010507@s23.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:24:57 +0200 From: Mutante <mutante@....org> To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com Subject: "john@...e"? Hi, out of curiosity and an interest in taking part in Distributed Computing projects, especially SETI@...e: Quite a few people might have heard of SETI@...e, and that by now it has evolved into the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)[1] framework which can support many other distributed computing projects[2] like Einstein@...e, Rosetta@...e etc.. It also allows creating new projects [3] .. Quote: " BOINC is designed to support applications that have large computation requirements, storage requirements, or both. A project can gain access to many TeraFLOPs of CPU power and Terabytes of storage."[4] Now i also learned about the existence of DJohn (Distributed John) [5] and it made me wonder about whether it would be possible to use the Boinc clients to crack passwords. I would install Boinc on several desktops in a company and they would run as screensaver, normally supporting SETI@...e or another public interest project, but i could also use them to check for weak passwords by simply switching the client to another project, (d)johnd being a local project within the company LAN. The boinc software already allows fine tuning of percentages of resources given to different projects running at the same time. Then that raises another question, what if somebody created a a global "john@...e" project, hmm but i guess that would be very similar to the RC5 challenge [6]. I was just wondering , i hope you didnt find this too offtopic. Greets, Daniel Links: [1] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ [2] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php [3] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/create_project.php [4] http://boinc.berkeley.edu/parallelize.php [5] http://ktulu.com.ar/en/djohn.php [6] http://www.distributed.net/rc5/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail john-users-unsubscribe@...ts.openwall.com and reply to the automated confirmation request that will be sent to you.
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