Debian Bug report logs - #363503
ITA: distributed-net -- donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net [non-free]

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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: O: distributed-net -- donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net [non-free]

Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:12:07 +0200

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Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

The current maintainer of distributed-net, Stephen Stafford
<bagpuss@debian.org>, has orphaned this package.

If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.

Some information about this package:

Package: distributed-net
Binary: distributed-net
Version: 2.9008.490-2
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/misc
Maintainer: Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
Architecture: i386 ia64 sparc powerpc arm mipsel s390 hppa
Standards-Version: 3.5.10
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/non-free/d/distributed-net
Files:
 37409acda03104ed401ad8d32477fa03 656 distributed-net_2.9008.490-2.dsc
 2f9c1c177884cdf4c78bf585aa1cf0c4 2170353 distributed-net_2.9008.490.orig.tar.gz
 0885089be6fdc1fa89f55d963a8fa4f5 14202 distributed-net_2.9008.490-2.diff.gz

Package: distributed-net
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/misc
Installed-Size: 676
Maintainer: Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>
Architecture: ia64
Version: 2.9008.490-2
Replaces: rc564
Depends: libc6 | libc6.1, host | bind9-host
Recommends: logrotate
Suggests: apmd
Conflicts: rc564
Filename: pool/non-free/d/distributed-net/distributed-net_2.9008.490-2_ia64.deb
Size: 259768
MD5sum: 6c09c07507ffebcd509671a9fe7e04da
Description: donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net
 Donate your extra CPU cycles to a worthy cause!
 .
 distributed.net started in 1997 as a project whose purpose was to win a
 series of contests sponsored by RSA Data Security Inc., to crack their RC5
 encryption by brute-force methods. These contests were meant to show
 governments of nations such as the United States, who limit exports or
 use of cryptography, that the standards allowed are too weak for general
 use.
 .
 Since this time, distributed.net has changed their focus from solely
 cracking RSA's RC5 and DES projects to working on more diverse
 distributed computing problems.
 .
 The ongoing projects are RC5-72 and Optimal Golumb Rulers (25-mark), the
 latter of which has practical applications in science. There are also a
 number of other projects which are either periodic or upcoming. You may
 choose which project you wish to participate in.
 .
 By installing this package, unused CPU cycles on your computer will be used
 to work on cracking the code. There should be no noticeable slowdown of
 your system, since the client runs niced, and only uses CPU time when
 your computer would otherwise be idle.
 .
 For more information, see http://www.distributed.net/


Christoph
-- 
cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/

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