Puzzle 71 updates:

- it's simple, we just don't have good code yet (naughty devs hide their 9000x speedups over the best known methods...)
- it doesn't cost, on average, four times the amount of the reward, to break it; it's a deal so good that it shouldn't be missed
- WanderingPhilospher gave up on it (ohnoez... though his strategy remains a mystery as great as the puzzle itself; tried to reproduce it without success)
- CPU tools got better at frying CPUs (this is admirable, since we all know CPUs are meant to run at 100% for centuries, to get to that 0.1% scanned keys out of total keys)
- this thread is definitely not a garbage dump, where self-proclaimed encryption experts can't even handle a simple bit matching count (but claim to be prefix world record holders nevertheless), while reality check is dismissed as "AI non-sense".