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Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge
Orbital mind control lasers made [email protected] (Mike Duvos) write:
>Peter Trei ([email protected]) writes:
>>1. I'm astonished at the low level of reaction RSA's announcement that they
>>will be sponsoring a DES Challenge, with a $10,000 cash prize.
>I'm certainly jumping up and down and cheering. I said a while back that the
>life expectancy of DES would be about two weeks if anyone forked over serious
>cash.
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").
Peter.