{"id":430,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=430"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"rc5des-no-more-lost-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"RC5DES: No more lost blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.distributed.net\">RC5DES<\/a> encryption cracking contest has a BeOS client. Unfortunately, this client will drop partially completed blocks when it is restarted unless you create a checkpoint file:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start the rc5des client with the -config option.\n<li>Choose option 1) from the menu : Block and Buffer Options\n<li>Choose option 10) from this menu : Checkpoint Filename\n<li>Enter a name for the checkpoint file (such as rc5.cp)\n<li>Return to the main menu\n<li>Exit and save settings\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now start the rc5des client. The next time you stop it, it will save its current data to the checkpoint file so that next time it&#8217;s restarted it continues from where it left off. No more lost blocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RC5DES encryption cracking contest has a BeOS client. Unfortunately, this client will drop partially completed blocks when it is restarted unless you create a checkpoint file: Start the rc5des client with the -config option. Choose option 1) from the menu : Block and Buffer Options Choose option 10) from this menu : Checkpoint Filename [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}