Brute Force DES

[Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>]

At 10:32 AM 7/22/96 -6, Peter Trei wrote:

>Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on single DES? My 
>back-of-the-envelope calculations and guesstimates put this on the
>hairy edge of doability (the critical factor is how many machines can
>be recruited - a non-trivial cash prize would help). 

I volunteer my 120 MHZ Pentium.  A lot more Pentiums are out there now than
a year ago.  That makes it more feasible.  A lot more people with full net
connections.  Like most Americans, I have a flat rate net connection and a
flat rate local phone connection so could run a cracking session permanently
(as long as no one tells my ISP).  We need a full test of the Winsock
cracking client in any case.  It wasn't working very well last time.

DCF