Brute-forcing DES

[trollins@interactive.visa.com (Tom Rollins)]

Hi,

Anyone have a FPGA chip PCI board layout that they would like to
share. Having seen the paper "Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric
Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security", the FPGA chip
seems like a perfect addition to my pc. Count me in...

Thanks,
-tom

> 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). 

-- 
Tom Rollins   <trollins@interactive.visa.com>