How long is this supposed to take? On my box it has taken almost 12 calendar days and just about as much CPU time. 

me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ date ; ps -ef | grep zod
Tue Jul 19 12:36:08 EDT 2011
me        9267     1  0 Jul07 ?        00:00:00 time ./zod.pl
me        9268  9267 99 Jul07 ?        11-19:49:32 /usr/bin/perl ./zod
+.pl
me       12255 12193  0 12:36 pts/5    00:00:00 grep zod
me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ ps -o etime -p 9268
    ELAPSED
11-21:45:38

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My box is not wimpy from what I can tell about Intel hardware these days. 

me@mybox:~/sandbox
$ head -n 14 /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 15
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E7320  @ 2.13GHz
stepping        : 8
cpu MHz         : 2133.050
cache size      : 2048 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 10
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
+ mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall lm 
+pni cx16 lahf_lm
bogomips        : 4374.81

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In reply to Re: z340crack : A Tool For Brute-Force Cracking The Zodiac Serial Killer's Z340 Cipher. by jffry
in thread z340crack : A Tool For Brute-Force Cracking The Zodiac Serial Killer's Z340 Cipher. by bpoag

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