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Re: Brute Force DES

To: jim bell <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: Brute Force DES
From: [email protected] (Bill Frantz)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 11:57:07 -0700
Cc: Matt Blaze <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]

At 12:41 AM 7/23/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>Not that I think that such a dedicated chip necessarily exists; chances are 
>good that there isn't all that much demand for a 12-megabyte/second 
>encryptor.

If you are running a 600 megabit/sec ATM/SONET link and want to encrypt it,
you are in the market for a 75 megabyte/sec encryptor.

As for dedicated crackers, according to my notes from the SAFE forum at
Stanford, Eric Thompson said his company made FPGAs for cracking DES.  A
seven day crack for $1 million.

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