Howard> Hi, On the Status Report page, it says something about "Time
Howard> to 50% completion". Why is it not 100% instead of 50%? Is
Howard> 50% the same as 100% because of the complementary key pair
Howard> business?
On an average, you'll only have to look through 50% of the keyspace to
find the correct key. The 48-bit RC5 search, for example, only looked
through 57% of the keyspace before finding the key.
-- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft, Inc. cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Death to small keys. Crack DES NOW! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm