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Re: Last nail for US crypto export policy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Jan 29 08:44:37 1997
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:40:41 -0800 (PST)
Cc: iang@cs.berkeley.edu, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199701290610.WAA20623@toad.com> from "stewarts@ix.netcom.com" at "Jan 28, 97 07:04:43 pm"
http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/
> Yee-hah! Congratulations (and enjoy the $1000 check!)
> So what did you do interesting cryptographically in the crack,
> other than coordinating a bunch of workstations?
> Was it just brute force with well-tuned code?
> Given the figures in your press release, it sounds like you
> tested about 350 billion keys out of a trillion possible,
> so you hit the winner a shade early. That's about 400,000 keys/sec/box.
> Are the machines mostly Pentiums, Alphas, Suns, etc.?
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