From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 14:45:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13132 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cei.net (mail.cei.net [204.117.117.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12562 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 14:35:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.dancooks.com (smtp.dancooks.com [204.180.122.4]) by mail.cei.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA03795 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:34:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from T2/SpoolDir by smtp.dancooks.com (Mercury 1.12); Wed, 18 Jun 97 16:33:14 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by T2 (Mercury 1.30); 18 Jun 97 16:32:54 -0600 From: "Jason Hudgins" Organization: Dan Cook's Inc. To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:32:46 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RSA5 Encryption Cracked.. Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <11F12637A8E@smtp.dancooks.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Heya, I just thought some of you might be happy to know that the Deschall project just successfully cracked an RC5 encrypted message with a 56 bit key. The really cool thing is that it was one of the 1-2% machines that was running FreeBSD! The majority of the machines hacking away cpu cylces were running windows and solaris. They found the key after searching through only 25% of the keyspace. Even though it was really just a matter of luck, I still that it was pretty cool. Jason Jason L. Hudgins Dan Cook's Web Hacker Type Person office email: hudginsj@smtp.dancooks.com home email: jasonh@cei.net http://www.dancooks.com/~jason