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Article #1305Re: Using genetic engineering for exhaustive DES key search
From: John Nagle
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 03:04
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 03:04
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lou@Cadence.COM (Louis K. Scheffer) writes:
>The basic approach would be to build a bacteria that acts as a DES key search
>machine. Each bacteria generates keys at random, decrypts the encrypted block
>with the key, and compares the result with the plaintext. If there is a match,
>it generates lots of a string of DNA that contains the key and a specific
>marker that binds to an antibody, and excretes the result. Otherwise it
>just keeps trying keys.
This is a truly wierd idea. Genetic engineering is still some ways
from the design of bacteria with arbitrary functionality, but can anyone
familiar with the field say this concept is fundamentally unworkable?
John Nagle
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!ukma!wupost!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Subject: Re: Using genetic engineering for exhaustive DES key search Message-ID: <1992Oct4.030434.23850@netcom.com> Keywords: exhaustive, DES, genetic engineering Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <lou.717919152@cadence.com> Distribution: na Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 03:04:34 GMT Lines: 14