Marshall Clow writes: : >"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). : > : I'll be there. : I have a pair of PowerPC machines that I can donate for a week or so. I am afraid that the number of machines needed would trivialize even the most non-trivial cash prize. But for what its worth, I can give you a lot of spare cycles on a couple of 486 Linux boxes. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu