Orbital mind control lasers made mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos) write:
1. I'm astonished at the low level of reaction RSA's announcement that they will be sponsoring a DES Challenge, with a $10,000 cash prize. I'm certainly jumping up and down and cheering. I said a while back that the
Peter Trei (trei@process.com) writes: life expectancy of DES would be about two weeks if anyone forked over serious cash.
I'm still a bit nervous about what the reaction will be though - won't the US government (and anyone else pushing DES) be able to say "It took 10,000 Pentiums several weeks, noone would bother doing that, so it's safe" (with a possible side order of "Safer-SK64 is 256 times as secure, anyone we really like can use that provided they hand over the keys in advance"). Peter.