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Re: Federal Key Registration Agency
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At 03.05 AM 6/21/96 -0700, William Knowles wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, jim bell wrote:
>> If done in parallel, on a dedicated, 200 MHz custom chip, my WAG says that
>> such a chip could try, and statistically analyze the results of 10 million
>> DES codes per second. (it would do the decrypts on a number of parallel
>> DES blocks, and look for typical ASCII code pattern probabilities, again all
>> in parallel.) A typical cracking system might have 100 boards of 100 such
>> chips, or perhaps a 100 billion such decrypts per second. Checking the
>> keyspace would require 2**19 seconds, or about a half million seconds, or 6
>> days. Average decrypt, of course, in 3 days.
Wasn't there a crypto paper three or four years ago that said if custom chips
were used, a million dollar custom machine could crack a DES key in less
than a day?
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