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Article #3783Re: An interesting message from SECURITY-DIGEST@RUTGERS
From: Marcus J. Ranum
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1987 17:24
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1987 17:24
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I believe the reference to a DES breaking alg was about the hotrod IBM PC developed at (I believe) MIT. Basically it's a PC bus with some custom hardware to drive a DES chip at high speed. I don't recall the number but it can do enough DES permutations fast enough that a brute-force attack on DES is no longer out of the question for the key size. I gathered that if it were left going it would be able to do an exhaustive attack in about 3 hours, or some reasonably short time. --mjr(); -- If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness... -Johnny Mnemonic
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!mjr From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus J. Ranum) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: An interesting message from SECURITY-DIGEST@RUTGERS Message-ID: <1410@osiris.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 13:24:44 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.1410 Posted: Sun Oct 11 13:24:44 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 04:48:52 EDT References: <7449@reed.UUCP> <6536@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: My Etch-A-Sketch runs X-Windows Lines: 15 Keywords: NSA, DES Summary: DES breaking alg...