On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Trei Family wrote:
I've heard of only one organized group which plans to attack it; the one based at www.distributed.net This is the same group which successfully brute forced 56 bit RC5 encryption. My educated guess, based on the speed with which they are currently searching RC5-64 (about 11 Gkey/sec) and the known speed differences between RC5 and DES searching, is that they have a good but not certain chance of finding the key within the $10,000 window. [Interesting factoid - at that speed they could crack 40 bit RC5 keys at better than one a minute.] But distributed.net will not be focusing all of thier computing power on one project. They are also doing the old des contests. So the power will be diminished a little bit.
-- Douglas F. Elznic delznic@acm.org "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." Freedom through Electronic Resistance