"Peter Trei" <trei@process.com> wrote: Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on single DES? My back-of-the-envelope calculations and guesstimates put this on the hairy edge of doability (the critical factor is how many machines can be recruited - a non-trivial cash prize would help). Not quite sure what you mean by "doability" -- it's obviously doable, it just depends how long you want to wait. I'm in. -- Paul Foley <mycroft@actrix.gen.nz> --- PGPmail preferred PGP key ID 0x1CA3386D available from keyservers fingerprint = 4A 76 83 D8 99 BC ED 33 C5 02 81 C9 BF 7A 91 E8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: "These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too." -- Dave Haynie