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Brute-forcing DES
> 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).
Count me in. I've got a couple of net-connected Pentiums that are mostly
idle.
Did you consider the possibility of DES chips in your back-of-the-envelope
calculations? They are hundreds of times faster than PCs. I don't know
where to get them or how much they cost, though. I would expect they
wouldn't be too expensive. The cash might be better spent on DES chips
than on a prize.
Might be able to bring some money in by selling "I Helped Crack DES And
All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt" T-shirts.
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