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Re: Borders *are* transparent



Marshall Clow writes:

: >"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). 
: >
: I'll be there.
: I have a pair of PowerPC machines that I can donate for a week or so.

I am afraid that the number of machines needed would trivialize even
the most non-trivial cash prize.  But for what its worth, I can give
you a lot of spare cycles on a couple of 486 Linux boxes.

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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