At 21:28 7/22/96, aba@atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote:
So ideally for a break you would like the whole thing to be completed in say 2 weeks wall clock time, which gives rise to the need for ~100,000 machines of similar throughput, full-time for two weeks.
Possible?
Perhaps not 100k machines, and perhaps not in two weeks, but is it possible? You bet. That would
Somebody would need to spend a fair bit of effort publicising it on USENET, to get a good response.
Sure. There should be at least a two month long campaign on USENET. Plenty of time to debug the cracking software.
There may be problems associated with offering prize money... what if some employees at DES hardware vendors `borrowed' some time on their top of the range DES cruncher? Perhaps this doesn't matter, as it would just make the point even more strongly :-)
I agree. Let's hope some people will help the project with some custom DES crackers.
What DES modes are used in typical banking situations? (I am presuming a challenge involving a widely used banking funds transfer protocol would be a suitably juicy targets, based on a criteria of demonstrating the greatest financial risk).
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