At 4:50 7/23/96, Paul Foley wrote:

"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).

Not quite sure what you mean by "doability" -- it's obviously doable, it just depends how long you want to wait.

I'm in.

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