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Re: DES 2 challenge: Are you going to help?
On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Trei Family wrote:
> I've heard of only one organized group which plans to attack it; the one
> based at www.distributed.net This is the same group which successfully
> brute forced 56 bit RC5 encryption. My educated guess, based on the speed
> with which they are currently searching RC5-64 (about 11 Gkey/sec) and the
> known speed differences between RC5 and DES searching, is that they have
> a good but not certain chance of finding the key within the $10,000 window.
> [Interesting factoid - at that speed they could crack 40 bit RC5 keys at
> better than one a minute.]
But distributed.net will not be focusing all of thier computing power on
one project. They are also doing the old des contests. So the power will
be diminished a little bit.
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