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Re: DES Key recovery project, Progress Report #7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas S.)
Fri Feb 21 12:49:53 1997
To: Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Cc: trei@process.com, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net,
des-challenge@MuFFiN.Org
Reply-To: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net,
des-pr@lists.des.crypto.org
From: ths@rz.tu-ilmenau.de (Thomas S.)
Date: 21 Feb 1997 13:53:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: Germano Caronni's message of Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:38:18 +0100 (MET)
>>>>> "Germano" == Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch> writes:
Germano> "After 2-3 months of searching, the whole internet was
Germano> able to find one single DES key."
Germano> Do you value this positively?
It depends on how you state it, but it might be used against us, agree.
Germano> I would suggest putting together all independent and
Germano> coordinated approaches, give them a fixed start time
Germano> (e.g. 1.3.97) so that later the claim can be made: "
Germano> [10-999]'000 machines on the internet found the DES key
Germano> after 2 weeks of searching." Sounds much better to me.
Germano> Well, the start was in Jnuary, and nothing to be changed
Germano> about that, isn't it? ;-)
Sounds more organised as well (which 90% of the people seem to prefer
for strange reasons). I just wonder how to do it... It means that you
can't have a steady growing of the project as last time, you have to
reach and interest a lot of people without actually going on.
It is a little bit like the hugh PR action for the release of Win95.
What we really need are people waiting eagerly for *the big start*. I
have no idea how to reach this goal.
Germano> I guesss the actual goal of our current efforts is not so
Germano> clear anymore... :-( Nevertheless, software is being
Germano> done, and people are waiting for clients and server to
Germano> come up. I hope this happens soon.
The goal is clear (at least to me, some people may disagree with my
goal of course) but not the means to reach it.
Thomas
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