Five Years of Crunching Primes

According to my stats page at the Seventeen or Bust site, I've been crunching primes as part of their massive distributed computer for over 5 years now. I can't even believe it's been that long.

Before that, I was cracking crypto as part of distributed.net's efforts. I don't know how long that was - the stat page says 1,000 days, but I don't know when I began or halted my activity there.

I like how these projects contrast with other distributed projects (like Seti@home) in that they have finite amounts of work, specific goals that will be reached, and an understanding that those goals will contribute to our collective knowledge.