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Network Week demonstrate complete lack of clue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Thu Feb 4 11:09:52 1999
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:39:40 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: cryptography@c2.net, coderpunks@toad.com, macey@cmp.com,
UKCrypto List <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
In an article entitled "56-bit cipher defeated in just 22 hours",
Network Week (3 Feb 1999) say "Eric Young and Tim Hudson used 'brute
force' - trying every possible combination - on a $250,000 custom-built
super PC". Yeah, right!
Cheers,
Ben.
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