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Why not donate your computers unused cpu cycles in an international effort to make advances such as creating new vaccines, improving international security, discovering new prime numbers or some other major project? You can download the clients from the "free download" links below or directly from the client site. Go on - One day you can say you were part of the international human effort to cure Cancer or make the world a safer place or even find alien life. The client runs in the background so you won't notice it's there and it doesn't affect your computers performance because it only uses the processor cycles your not using. The program puts an icon next to your clock so you can see when it's running and check on it's progress. It has a fantastic graphical user interface (GUI) so you can see the molecules being processed and any hits youv'e had. It's just a matter of time before these clients discover the correct key to use. By initiating a massive international "brute force attack" we are trying every possible combination in the keyspace so we CAN NOT FAIL to find the correct key.

Current challenges

FightAIDS@Home - Help fight Aids at home.

Parabon Frontier Compute Against Cancer - Help fight Cancer at home.

World Community Grid - Create medicines to fight serious diseases like Cancer, Aids and Muscular Dystrophy as well as other projects like Genome Comparison and Human Proteome Folding 2.

Boinc - This client runs several projects including seti, Climate Change Experiment and others.

Gimps - Find new Mersenne Prime Numbers.

Distributed.net Project Bovine - Increase International Security by donating your computers unused cpu cycles to crack codes.

More Distributed Computing Projects - More good Causes to donate your computing power.

Even more Distributed Computing Projects - Donate your PCs Unused cpu cycles

Project Bovine Cryptography Challenge Current Projects

RSA Labs RC5-72 Optimal Golomb Rulers - Having successfully completed the RSA Labs RC5-56 and RC5-64 Cryptographic Challenge, we are now working on the 72-bit variant of this encryption algorithm. RSA LABS RC5-72 cryptography stats as of the 19th September 2010 - I am ranked 16.018 with a top rank of 2,055 and I have tested 142,906,446,839,808 Keys over 2,734 Days at the rate of 604,978 keys per second.

RSA Labs OGR-25 Optimal Golomb Rulers - RSA LABS OGR-25 cryptography stats as of 19th September 2010 - I am ranked 49,119 with a top rank of 833 and I have tested 15,676,702,460,994 Nodes over 2,149 Days at the rate of 84,432 nodes per second.

Completed challenges

United Devices Cancer Research Project - Retired on April 27th 2007

Points as of 08/04/07: 132,796
Total CPU Time: 1 year, 129days (Rank) (77,359)
Points Generated 132,658 (Rank) (104,658)
Results Returned 385 (Rank) (170,339)

Project Bovine Cryptography Challenge Completed Challenges

The CSC Project is over. On 16 January 2000, shortly before 0630 GMT, we received the winning key (00438EF36FE3FC21 The secret message was: CS-Cipher a ete presente en mars 97 a 'Fast Software Encryption' (PARIS).

RSA Labs' 56bit RC5 Encryption Challenge is now complete after 250 days. It is a great privilege and we are excited to announce that at 13:25 GMT on 19-Oct-1997, we found the correct solution for RSA Labs' RC5-32/12/7 56-bit secret-key challenge. Confirmed by RSA Labs, the key 0x532B744CC20999 presented us with the plaintext message for which we have been searching. The unknown message is: It's time to move to a longer key length.

RSA Labs' 64bit RC5 Encryption Challenge is now complete after 1,757 days. I managed to test 8,320,156 ,958,720 keys over 1135 days. 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. RC5-64, plus the work done after the key was found - The RSA LABS RC5-64 cryptography challenge is complete. As of 06/12/02 I had tested 9,040,369,287,168 keys over 1171 days.