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RE: Turing Bombe story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Clysdale)
Thu Jul 16 19:36:03 1998
From: Ian Clysdale <iancly@entrust.com>
To: "'Scott G. Kelly'" <skelly@redcreek.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:22:18 -0400
> So, just out of curiosity, could someone build a similar (specialized)
> machine for DES... or skipjack?
>
See Michael Wiener's DES machine. It was originally presented in "Efficient
DES Key Search" by Michael Wiener, and he put out an update to it in the
Autumn 1997 edition of RSA's cryptobytes (available on their web sites).
The original paper can be retrieved from
ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/docs/des-key-search.ps
ian
