.... You lost; if it takes that long to crack what's the point?

That's very common these days. First let's note that the project is running on non-specialized machines, using idle time. If you look at the DES-III contest (n0cgi.distributed.net/statistics/des3/..) you will notice that DeepCrack, a machine built by EFF on a limited budget, was the largest contributor. What resources does a funded effort have to launch a brute force attack?

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