-=* What is Myzar? *=-

Myzar is a graphical front end for the Amiga RC5DES client. Its purpose is to
make it easy for Amiga people to join the RC5 contest, thus helping the Amiga
gaining exposure over other platforms and OSes.


 -=* What is RC5? *=-

The RC5 contest is, as the words suggest, a contest. RC5 is an encryption
method very common over the Internet. In early 1998 RSA Labs proposed a
challenge: 10000 dollars to those who can crack a message encrypted with a 64
bit RC5 key. The challenge was taken by distributed.net, who choose a "brute
force" approach: try EACH of the 2^64 possible keys, until the one that "fit
the lock" is found. To do this, they envolve ten of thousand of computers over
the Internet, own by people who decided to give their spare CPU cycles to

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[generic]                 3287    7218  45.5% -lh5- 2e3a Nov 18  1998 Myzar/catalogs/deutsch/Myzar.catalog
[generic]                 3179    7366  43.2% -lh5- 2880 Nov 18  1998 Myzar/catalogs/español/Myzar.catalog
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[generic]                 3215    7112  45.2% -lh5- dc1b Nov 18  1998 Myzar/catalogs/italiano/Myzar.catalog
[generic]                 3304    7074  46.7% -lh5- 0387 Nov 18  1998 Myzar/catalogs/magyar/Myzar.catalog
[generic]                 3045    6682  45.6% -lh5- 2ebf Nov 18  1998 Myzar/catalogs/nederlands/Myzar.catalog
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[generic]                 1307    2589  50.5% -lh5- 155f Nov 18  1998 Myzar/Icons.info
[generic]                 1843    3042  60.6% -lh5- 0cdb Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar.info
[generic]                  559    1388  40.3% -lh5- bb40 Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar_NI_68k.info
[generic]                  566    1393  40.6% -lh5- 82b8 Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar_NI_68k_project.info
[generic]                  573    1373  41.7% -lh5- 9697 Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar_NI_PPC.info
[generic]                  574    1371  41.9% -lh5- 6395 Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar_NI_PPC_project.info
[generic]                 1851    3047  60.7% -lh5- d1d7 Oct  9  1998 Myzar/Icons/Myzar_project.info
[generic]                30142   61988  48.6% -lh5- 2eeb Nov 29  1998 Myzar/Myzar
[generic]                 1472    2642  55.7% -lh5- e26a Nov 18  1998 Myzar/Myzar.guide.info
[generic]                 1851    3057  60.5% -lh5- d6f6 Nov 18  1998 Myzar/Myzar.info
[generic]                20165   52837  38.2% -lh5- 3fe4 Dec 14  1998 Myzar/Myzar.guide
[generic]                 2001    4054  49.4% -lh5- 0087 Dec 14  1998 Myzar.readme
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