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Re: DES Key recovery project, Progress Report #7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cottrell)
Fri Feb 21 15:10:21 1997
In-Reply-To: <m3k9o2xo2n.fsf@fh28.fa.umist.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:45:18 -0800
To: coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net, des-pr@lists.des.crypto.org,
Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
From: Lance Cottrell <loki@infonex.com>
Cc: trei@process.com, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net,
des-challenge@MuFFiN.Org
At 5:53 AM -0800 2/21/97, Thomas S. wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
>
I would be happy to promote this effort on the Anonymizer to build
interest. A couple weeks before the attempt starts, provide me with a
banner and I will place it in rotation on the sites BannerMedia sponsors.
-Lance
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