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Re: DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)

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Subject: Re: DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)
From: Mike Duvos <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from Jeff Simmons at "Jun 18, 97 02:10:03 pm"
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>         INTERNET-LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD

[snip]

> At the time the winning key was reported to RSADSI, the DESCHALL effort
> had searched almost 25% of the total.  At its peak over the recent
> weekend, the DESCHALL effort was testing 7 billion keys per second. 

A quick question.  Was finding the key by searching less than a quarter
of the keyspace just luck?  Or did the DESCHALL folks exclude keyspace
already searched by competing efforts?

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     Mike Duvos         $    PGP 2.6 Public Key available     $
     [email protected]   $    via Finger                       $

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