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RE: DES cracking is making real progress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Brown)
Tue May 20 11:30:42 1997
From: Andy Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
To: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 15:46:51 +0100
Lucky Green wrote:
> The DES cracking efforts are making real progress. If you aren't already
> participating, now is the time to do so. DESCHALL reports 7% of the
> keyspace searched with an estimated 14 weeks to go.
This is doing more harm than good. The more weeks go by the more people are
going to assume that DES is fine for today's security needs when in fact there
are powerful organisations out there with dedicated hardware that can render
DES useless.
Regards,
- Andy
