[82010] in Cypherpunks
Re: DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Duvos)
Wed Jun 18 19:57:18 1997
In-Reply-To: <199706182110.OAA07864@goblin.punk.net> from Jeff Simmons at "Jun 18, 97 02:10:03 pm"
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net>
Reply-To: Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net>
> INTERNET-LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD
[snip]
> At the time the winning key was reported to RSADSI, the DESCHALL effort
> had searched almost 25% of the total. At its peak over the recent
> weekend, the DESCHALL effort was testing 7 billion keys per second.
A quick question. Was finding the key by searching less than a quarter
of the keyspace just luck? Or did the DESCHALL folks exclude keyspace
already searched by competing efforts?
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