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Re: Non-PK encryption not vulnerable via low key length?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Sat Mar 18 03:20:21 1995
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.apana.org.au>
To: jbb@cs.umb.edu (John B. Brown)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 18:23:12 +1100 (EST)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199503172044.AA12088@terminus.cs.umb.edu> from "John B. Brown" at Mar 17, 95 03:44:25 pm
>
> Dear Jake,
>
>
> That was Michael J. Wiener of Bell Northern Research in 1993.
> The paper is 'Efficient DES Key Search'. His proposed machine would have
> cost about $1M and would have found a key in about 3.5 hours.
>
> Shalom,
>
> JBB.
>
Note that DES keyspace is 2^56, not 2^64, which would take 256 times as
long to search (but still well within reach of major organizations).
Cheers,
Julian Assange (-Proff-)
