[1138] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Better DES challenge update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Tue Jul 1 16:44:51 1997
To: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
Cc: Eli Brandt <eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@artcom.de>
Date: 30 Jun 1997 18:42:20 +0200
In-Reply-To: Matt Blaze's message of Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:44:45 -0400
>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com> writes:
Matt> According to our 1995 estimates, $300k worth of FPGA-based
Matt> hardware will buy you a DES key every 19 days; improvements
Matt> in FPGA price/performance cuts the price to about $150k
Matt> today. So you should be able to get one key every 80 days
Matt> for about $50k. And when you get bored with key cracking,
Unfortunately this is only true if you neglect development costs,
which I'd estimate in the $100k range. It's not economical to build a
machine smaller than about $300k based on FPGA.
BTW: Given that such a FPGA machine exists, does anyone have a good
idea what one could do with it besides cracking DES?
Andreas
--
Get rid of C++ and yourself a Dylan compiler at legend.gwydion.cs.cmu.edu!
