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Re: The secret message is...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Feb 25 16:16:34 1998
To: Rick Smith <rsmith@securecomputing.com>
cc: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>, cryptography@c2.net,
markham@securecomputing.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:05:06 CST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:23:38 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Rick Smith writes:
> 68,859 (Macs for a month) * $52 (per month leasing)
> = $3,580,668 to crack a single DES key
That is, of course, using rather overpowerful hardware for the job.
If you used specialized equipment, the price would be orders of
magnitude smaller -- literally.
.pm
