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Re: Brute Force DES


The Deviant writes:
> Buy the point is to prove that DES shouldn't be used, not that it CAN
> be brute forced.  A known-plaintext attack doesn't show that.  We hafta
> attack something we've never seen. (i.e. talk Netscape, or some other
> company, into generating a DES'd message, and keeping the keys safe)

Known plaintext isn't needed. You just need a plaintext with some
decent statistical properties.

Dave Wagner has some information on this.

Perry