[81959] in Cypherpunks
Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Tue Jun 17 15:08:45 1997
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:46:56 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: Peter Trei <trei@process.com>
Cc: vince@offshore.com.ai, cypherpunks@toad.com, trei@process.com
In-Reply-To: <199706161546.IAA05715@toad.com>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
> They have not released their source code for independent
> evaluation. I for one would feel a lot more comfortable with
> DESChall if there was at least some outside review, even if
> no general release is made.
I do not keep up with the various DES challenge efforts: Did DESChall
ever give a reason for not releasing source code?
Has anyone tried reverse engineering the executable?
Does anyone have statistics on how quick deschall is as opposed to, for
example, Bryddes? If they haven`t released source code and it is
significantly faster it may be they have further key schedule
optimisations they do not wish to share.
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