17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
At 8:05 PM -0400 6/20/97, ET wrote:
I caught the Headline News mention of the DES crack and it unfortunately put the wrong spin on things.
I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this: "If you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better be prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on the project."
At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state of the art security technology... Rick. smith@securecomputing.com secure computing corporation "Internet Cryptography" soon in print http://www.visi.com/crypto/