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Re: RC5-12/32/5 contest solved
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stewarts@ix.netcom.com)
Wed Jan 29 08:43:14 1997
From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:37:57 -0800
To: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>,
Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Original-From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199701282055.VAA11732@kom30.ethz.ch>
Any bets on whether the $5000 RC5-12/32/6 contest will be solved
before the www.rsa.com contest status web page is updated? :-)
Or how long before someone in the government starts talking about
how 56 bits takes 65,000 times as long to solve as 40 bits,
which is 26 years for a whole building full of computers,
and even 48 bits ought to take a month and a half for a whole
building full of computers (or supercomputers, if they hype it up....)?
At 09:55 PM 1/28/97 +0100, Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>challenge: RC5-32/12/5
>time: from start of contest until Tue Jan 28 21:54:58 1997
>method: massive distributed coordinated keysearch, details later
which was a bit slower than Ian Goldberg's crack, but pretty close.
How many machines were you using, on average?
# Thanks; Bill
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