Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:20:17 -0600 From: "Michael K. Sanders" <msanders@aros.net> To: "Jason Hudgins" <hudginsj@smtp.dancooks.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RSA5 Encryption Cracked.. Message-ID: <199706182220.QAA00811@shell.aros.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:32:46 MDT." <11F12637A8E@smtp.dancooks.com>
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In message <11F12637A8E@smtp.dancooks.com>, "Jason Hudgins" writes: > > 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. Just to clarify, it was a 56-bit _DES_ encrypted message [1]. ...and I think it's even cooler. <grin> [1]: "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place."
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