Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge

[sameer <sameer@c2.net>]

>  
> I'm still a bit nervous about what the reaction will be though - won't the 
> US government (and anyone else pushing DES) be able to say "It took 10,000 
> Pentiums several weeks, noone would bother doing that, so it's safe" (with a 
> possible side order of "Safer-SK64 is 256 times as secure, anyone we really 
> like can use that provided they hand over the keys in advance").
>  

	I'm nervous too, but consider "for only a $10k reward, look at
the effort people went through. People are using DES to protect things
*much* more valuable than $10k."

> Peter.
>  
> 


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