New project - Anderson Attack

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all,

A NEW BOINC project is now up and running:

http://parlea.ru/andersonattack

The tasks are for CUDA v2.0 or higher, so you will only get tasks if you have a compatible GPU.

The Team page is here:

http://parlea.ru/andersonattack/team_di ... ?teamid=39

regards
Tim

[UBT - Mikee]

Don't let Trump see we're working for the ruskies!

AndersonAttack@home was founded by Matrosov Institue for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, laboratory of Discrete Analysis and Applied Logic and by A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, center of distributed computing.

Mike

[Woodles]

The purpose of the project is to implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher. The attack's idea was described in the early 90's in a mailing group. As we know, it was never implemented in practice before. Anderson's attack belongs to a class of brute-force attacks, so given enough time it extracts a secret key with 100% probability, in contrast to the most popular rainbow tables attack on A5/1, that have success probability around 90%.

Seems to be another code breaking exercise? Anyone know how the workunits pan out?

Regards,

Mark

[UBT - Timbo]

Seems to be another code breaking exercise? Anyone know how the workunits pan out?

Regards,

Mark

Hi Mark

I'm still awaiting my 1st task !

Credits seem to be fixed at 100 credits per validated WU.

A GT430 took over 4,800 seconds and a GTX980 took 100 seconds...

There also seems to be an issue with the NVidia driver.

Scole reported this:

http://parlea.ru/andersonattack/forum_thread.php?id=5

I'm running v368.81 on my XP box so maybe I'll get errors. Will need to see how my Win 7 PC copes in a day or so (once FB finishes and all my Long GPUGrid tasks have been completed).

regards
Tim