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Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Tue Jan 7 15:06:14 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 10:20:12 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <85263054520588@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz> from "pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz" at "Jan 7, 97 10:49:05 pm"
>
> I'm still a bit nervous about what the reaction will be though - won't the
> US government (and anyone else pushing DES) be able to say "It took 10,000
> Pentiums several weeks, noone would bother doing that, so it's safe" (with a
> possible side order of "Safer-SK64 is 256 times as secure, anyone we really
> like can use that provided they hand over the keys in advance").
>
I'm nervous too, but consider "for only a $10k reward, look at
the effort people went through. People are using DES to protect things
*much* more valuable than $10k."
> Peter.
>
>
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