[81972] in Cypherpunks
Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Jun 17 18:14:38 1997
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 14:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Trei <trei@process.com>, vince@offshore.com.ai, cypherpunks@toad.com,
trei@process.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970616184448.515B-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
The DESCHALL source is available under NDA. The timings of the various
DESCHALL clients are on their homepage at
http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Paul Bradley wrote:
>
> > 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.
