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Re: "Strong" crypto and export rule changes.
At 11:55 PM 2/1/97 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
> More seriously, that estimate is the cost of breaking DES on
>custom hardware, based on Wiener's figures. Ian got RC4-40 in 3.5
>hours on I don't know how much hardware, not a lot of it custom, AFAIK.
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu is the home page for the
Network Of Workstations CPU farm. Mostly Suns with some recent
generation of Sparc chip.
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