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Re: DES cracked by teenagers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant Bayley)
Thu Sep 13 03:22:34 2001
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:50:27 +1000 (EST)
From: Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net>
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> According to http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867&intcatid=1,
> some teenagers "reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data
> Encryption Standard (DES)". I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it
> out. Anyone have any details?
>
> --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> http://www.wilyhacker.com
Anyone else think this sounds like an older machine with DES crypt()
passwords and a downloaded copy of John The Ripper?
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