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Re: DES search publicity (was Re: Cryptanalysis)
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Adam Back wrote:
>
> Peter Trei <[email protected]> writes:
> > Bill Stewart <[email protected]> writes:
> > > There may be a distributed Internet crack using that approach,
> > > though DES is still very inefficient on general-purpose computers and
> > > works better on bit-twiddliing chips.
> >
> > There's one slowly shaping up, organized by the same people who did
> > the RC5-48 crack. I'm still rooting for an uncoordinated search,
> > which is already underway.
>
> The people who did the RC5-48 crack over on <[email protected]>,
> and <[email protected]>, or at least one of them in
> particular, seems dead set on giving the prize fund 50:50 to the EFF/GNU.
> I'm having a heck of a time talking him out of it.
http://zero.genx.net/ is going at it as well - and whoever finds the key
gets the prize.
What's wrong with EFF/GNU?
-- Elliot Lee
http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.linuxexpo.org/