[2987] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
RE: Turing Bombe story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel R. Oelke)
Fri Jul 17 13:27:07 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:54:24 -0500
From: Dan.Oelke@aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke)
To: cryptography@c2.net
>
> > 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
I'm afraid that the Wiener paper now needs to be replaced by the
EFF book. If you haven't heard already - the EFF built a DES cracker
for ~$250k that broke RSA's latest DES challenge in 2.5 days.
See http://www.eff.org for info and pointers to buy the book from O'Riely.
Dan
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