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Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Geer)
Thu Jan 9 11:01:10 1997
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:49:05."
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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 01:45:20 -0500
From: Dan Geer <geer@OpenMarket.com>
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"...
this seems a good moment to remind ourselves
that we will never know as much about another
cipher as we know about DES.
ipso facto, i'd like to simply use the efficiency
of price discovery by auction and see what I can
buy the DES-key-of-your-choice for. my bet: there
are a lot of interesting DES keys available for
less than $10K
--dan
