[67066] in Cypherpunks
Re: Can we kill single DES?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Oct 2 12:14:55 1996
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Cc: trei@process.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 1996 05:27:25 GMT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 11:54:30 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Frank Andrew Stevenson writes:
> This location is send to the keyserver, which sends back highly
> compressed information about where other people are running their
> "screensavers", the screensaver itself can simply display a rotating
> globe, where the different densities of global usage is given in
> colour shades, showing an inverse sunclock of sorts. I think such a
> concept might give the DES-cracking screensaver a critical mass.
Sounds like fun, actually -- are you volunteering to write it?
.pm
