[82362] in Cypherpunks
Re: A better DES challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Tue Jun 24 01:31:18 1997
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 21:29:54 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Lucky Green wrote:
>
> At 06:15 PM 6/23/97 -0700, Mike Duvos wrote:
>> Really. It appears that the DESCHALL frivolities actually
>> enhanced the reputation of DES, fluffy press releases by C2 and
>> Security Dynamics notwithstanding.
>
> Which is why I opposed a distributed crack ever since the crack was
> first proposed. But once the crack got underway, the only thing to do
> was to participate and hope it wouldn't take all that long. Stressing
> the individual that found the key over the group effort was the best
> thing that could be done in an already bad situation. Spin control is
> a fact of life.
IMHO, it would have been better to emphasize the group effort, and that
they could continue to crack keys at a rate of one every 30 days even
if the computing base didn't continue to grow. Not to mention that they
could also be cracking 40-bit keys at a rate of about 2000 a day.
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