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Re: Better DES challenge update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Jul 2 15:06:47 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <199706300316.XAA12232@goffette.research.megasoft.com> from C Matthew Curtin at "Jun 29, 97 11:16:20 pm"
To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: mab@crypto.com, eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu, cryptography@c2.net
C Matthew Curtin wrote:
| But, even at your $50,000 figure, that's still $40,000 more than what
| was being offered by RSADSI. And how many folks would have a use for
| it once they got bored with searching for keys? How many have enough
| of a use to justify to management a $40k expenditure? Maybe one could
| crack^H^H^H^H^H recover keys commercially for a brief while, long
| enough to pay the machine off?
It may be that a company like Access Data, which does
commercial cryptanalysis could be sold on building such a machine for
publicity and use, but the pot of prizes is $10,000 less than it was
before.
Adam
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