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Re: 56-bit crack divided? DES vs. RC5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Tue Feb 25 13:55:44 1997
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:08:24 -6
Reply-to: trei@process.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 10:00:42 +0200 (GMT+0200)
> From: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
> To: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: Re: 56-bit crack divided? DES vs. RC5
> > Looks like the CPUs may be split between DES and RC5.
>
> It would appear so. The coordinated RC5 crack
> (<URL:http://zero.genx.net/>) has lists of statistics and stuff, and I
> think that that attracts a lot of attention. Then there's the difficulty
> of finding DES crack software (not many people know that, despite Peter
> Trei's best efforts, his code has escaped to
> <URL:ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/pub/incoming/deskr06i.zip>; and
> BrydDES is available only as an executable for one particular platform).
>
> The result is that folk find it easier and more exciting to participate in
> the RC5 crack than in the DES crack. Around here, there are perhaps 10
> enthusiastic participants in the coordinated RC5 crack, and I seem to be
> the only participant in the uncoordinated DES crack.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
Which is a damn shame. Not only is cracking DES a lot more
significant an event than another RC5 crack, it's also a lot
easier - the best DES crackers out there run 5-7 times faster
than the best RC5 crackers on the same platform.
Peter Trei
trei@Process.com
