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Re: Better DES challenge update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Crispin)
Mon Jul 14 11:57:51 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 00:07:32 -0700
From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
On Thu, Jul 10, 1997 at 09:49:59PM -0700, Phil Karn wrote:
[...]
> I have always held the theory that the NSA has better things to do
> with their supercomputers than conduct brute-force key searches on
> ciphers that are better conducted with cheaper special purpose
> machines.
Perhaps, but 1) supercomputers allow you to experiment with
algorithms to a far greater extent than special purpose hardware, and
2) the lense of "national security" completely distorts normal issues
of economics.
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