Talk:The Thirteenth Labour

As far as I can tell "Assault on 13th Labour" are attacking the wrong cipher. They are attacking standard RC5 - that is, RC5-32/12/8 - when they should be attacking the nonstandard variant RC5-64/12/8. Ciphergoth 09:00, 3 June 2006 (PDT)

Comment from me: The Assault Client was developped from the RCCRYPT package - version 1.6 to be exact. From the first page of the Unfiction thread:

64/12/8

This is VERY standard notation for the encryption used. It means that when it's being processed, 64 bits of the text are processed at a time. They are processed 12 times and that the key used to process them is 8 bytes (64 bits) long. This makes it almost certain that it's RC5-64 encryption.

Each block is processed 64 bits at a time, for 12 rounds, using an 8 byte key. The source has been verified by people who were actually involved in the original d.net assault on RC5-64. I am not sure where your information is from - but it would appear, fortunately - to be inaccurate.

Chimera245 21:00, 5 June 2006 (PDT)