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RE: DES cracking is making real progress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Wed May 21 17:15:39 1997
From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:55:24 +0800
To: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@netcom.com>, nelson@media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar),
Andy Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
Cc: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
At 06:21 PM 5/20/97 -0400, Pat Farrell wrote:
> The American and UK bankers that I've talked to are quite
> comfortable with DES today. I don't know if breaking one
> key will change that.
It will change that:
If a volunteer part time effort can break it using general
purpose hardware, they will realize the implications of a
dedicated for-profit effort using specialized hardware, and
if they do not, it will make no difference.
Ultimately this story will be boiled down to a single
sound bite
Cypherpunks broke DES.
End of DES.
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