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Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe
The DESCHALL source is available under NDA. The timings of the various
DESCHALL clients are on their homepage at
http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
-- Lucky Green <mailto:[email protected]> PGP encrypted mail preferred
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Paul Bradley wrote:
>
> > They have not released their source code for independent
> > evaluation. I for one would feel a lot more comfortable with
> > DESChall if there was at least some outside review, even if
> > no general release is made.
>
> I do not keep up with the various DES challenge efforts: Did DESChall
> ever give a reason for not releasing source code?
> Has anyone tried reverse engineering the executable?
>
> Does anyone have statistics on how quick deschall is as opposed to, for
> example, Bryddes? If they haven`t released source code and it is
> significantly faster it may be they have further key schedule
> optimisations they do not wish to share.