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Re: Borders *are* transparent



"Peter Trei" <[email protected]> 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). 

Not quite sure what you mean by "doability" -- it's obviously doable,
it just depends how long you want to wait.

I'm in.

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