On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Adam Back wrote:
Peter Trei
writes: Bill Stewart
writes: There may be a distributed Internet crack using that approach, though DES is still very inefficient on general-purpose computers and works better on bit-twiddliing chips.
There's one slowly shaping up, organized by the same people who did the RC5-48 crack. I'm still rooting for an uncoordinated search, which is already underway.
The people who did the RC5-48 crack over on
, and , or at least one of them in particular, seems dead set on giving the prize fund 50:50 to the EFF/GNU. I'm having a heck of a time talking him out of it.
http://zero.genx.net/ is going at it as well - and whoever finds the key gets the prize. What's wrong with EFF/GNU? -- Elliot Lee http://www.redhat.com/ http://www.linuxexpo.org/