Re: Brute Force DES

The Deviant writes:

Buy the point is to prove that DES shouldn't be used, not that it CAN be brute forced. A known-plaintext attack doesn't show that. We hafta attack something we've never seen. (i.e. talk Netscape, or some other company, into generating a DES'd message, and keeping the keys safe)

Known plaintext isn't needed. You just need a plaintext with some decent statistical properties. Dave Wagner has some information on this. Perry