We are now making v2 UNIX Personal Proxies available for select platforms
only. There are currently several binaries available on our ftp server:
ftp://ftp.distributed.net/pub/rc5/v2-proxyper/
The following is quoted from the proxy's README.TXT:
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This is the initial release of the v2 Personal Proxy for UNIX. With
this proxy, you can serve all v2 Bovine RC5 clients. It allows you to
establish one of your own machines as a buffer between your RC5
clients and one of the "full proxies" (keyservers) that are officially
run by the distributed.net organizers. This will allow your clients
to waste less time trying to connect to one of the main proxies, since
the personal proxy will already have more key blocks waiting for your
clients when they're ready.
Running a personal proxy is definitely not needed by everyone, nor is
it recommended. You should only run a personal proxy if you are very
confident of your abilities, and you have a very weak, unreliable, or
intermittent connection to the Internet to directly contact one of the
real proxies.
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*** IMPORTANT ***
Please do not send questions regarding the personal proxies to the main
list!! We have a dedicated mailing list that was created specifically for
handling issues regarding the personal proxies.
If you are not already subscribed to the personal proxy mailing list,
consider joining it by sending "subscribe rc5-proxyper" to
"majordomo@llamas.net"
A more formal FAQ answering questions not addressed by the README.TXT that
comes with the personal proxy will be made available later to address any
other issues that are unaddressed in the README.
Jeff
-- Jeff Lawson <jlawson@hmc.edu> http://rc5.distributed.net/ Original Organizer/Programmer of the Bovine RC5 Cracking Effort ---- To unsubscribe, email majordomo@llamas.net with 'unsubscribe rc5-announce' in the body.
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