17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, sameer may have penned some advertising:
HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer
... and quite a few other assorted systems that didn't happen to search the "lucky keyspace." Was anyone on DESCHALL using a Trash-80? ;)
INetZ vice president Jon Gay said "We hope that this will encourage people to demand the highest available encryption security, such as the 128-bit security provided by C2Net's Stronghold product, rather than the weak 56-bit ciphers used in many other platforms."
Of course.