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== Why PrimeGrid? == | == Why PrimeGrid? == | ||
On 12 June 2005, at approximately 14:00 UTC, Message@Home (now PrimeGrid) opened account creation to 50 users. It was being run on Rytis’ home laptop | On 12 June 2005, at approximately 14:00 UTC, Message@Home (now PrimeGrid) opened account creation to 50 users. It was being run on Rytis’ home laptop and was developed as a test project for PerlBOINC, an attempt to implement the BOINC server system in the Perl programming language in order to bring BOINC server software to Windows. | ||
The first project was Message7, and it attempted by “brute-force” to recover a message encoded with the md5 algorithm. In August, the RSA 640 Factoring Challenge application replaced the Message7 application and in November the project was renamed PrimeGrid after a short public contest.[https://primegrid.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_PrimeGrid] | The first project was Message7, and it attempted by “brute-force” to recover a message encoded with the md5 algorithm. In August, the RSA 640 Factoring Challenge application replaced the Message7 application and in November the project was renamed PrimeGrid after a short public contest.[https://primegrid.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_PrimeGrid] | ||