[80371] in Cypherpunks
DES search making serious progress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Mon May 19 21:53:57 1997
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Folks,
The DES key search is making serious progress. The leading contender
seems to be DESCHALL http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
They are currently searching >3.5 billion keys per second. Estimated time
to completion is 14 weeks.
It is no longer a question if the key will be found. We now need to make
sure that it is found as quickly as possible.
Please download and run the software.
Thanks,
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
