On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Dr. Alan Sherman wrote:
Why doesn't someone speed up the DES search with Hellman's time-space tradeoff, whose precomputation could be done within a month?
Probably because finding spare CPU cycles on thousands of machines is easy and free, while finding the disk storage space that you mention would be expensive, and I doubt distributed.net has the resources. And people who do have the resources are busy doing other things with them, or keep them at Fort Meade. I forget because I haven't read that part of Applied Crypto in a while, but wasn't it terabytes of storage? -- Andrew Fabbro [afabbro@umich.edu] [andrewf@jesuswept.com] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~afabbro/ 313.647.2713 "When in Bologna will a Fabbro rise again?" --Dante