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> I'm curious - is there any way of determining how many of each client we
> currently have in use?
>
> While DESChall is primarily about cooperation (with a bit of intercampus
> rivalry thrown in), it might be useful to have a listing of how many of each
> type of machine we have. For example:
>
> Out of 1500 clients
> 20% are 586 machines running Windows
> 10% are 601 PowerPC machines running MacOS
> etc...
>
> These stats might be a good tool to enlist OS partisans in the race to break
> DES (ie, MacintoshOS, Linux, NT users.) For example, if MacOS is only
> putting in 5% of the clients/keys, I can put out a call with weight to die
> hard Macintosh users to download the client and start cranking - all in the
> name of bolstering the MacOS. If Windows is losing ground to some other OS,
> I'm sure some brave soul could attempt to post to one of the advocacy or
> announce groups and try and gain support that way.
>
> At least one of the RC5 challenges is ranking clients in this way, and it
> seems to be a good way of getting attention.
>
> TC
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> Graphic Designer, & Student Animator
> tclai@ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles
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