Brute-forcing DES
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).
Count me in. I've got a couple of net-connected Pentiums that are mostly idle.
Although I dont have a pentium, I would be glad to put forth some computer power to help.
Might be able to bring some money in by selling "I Helped Crack DES And All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt" T-shirts.
Id buy one! :) P.J. pjn@nworks.com ... I helped crack DES and all I got was this lousy Tagline. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 [NR]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 pjn@nworks.com wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:25:44 -0500 From: pjn@nworks.com To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Brute-forcing DES
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).
Count me in. I've got a couple of net-connected Pentiums that are mostly idle.
Although I dont have a pentium, I would be glad to put forth some computer power to help.
Might be able to bring some money in by selling "I Helped Crack DES And All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt" T-shirts.
Id buy one! :)
Actually... we might as well print up the t-shirts, and sell them for $15 apeice, then buy a DES cracker with the profit ;) Seriously though, I'd by the t-shirt, and I'll donate processor time. I can definatly give an 8086 (BALK) to the process, some time on a 80386, and a limited amount of time on some p75's... --Deviant Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMfXXDzAJap8fyDMVAQHoFgf9EpXRvhXBLjQViyA2PQt7xGWpXqRlIYfz MCkTWabmUYAOdGcRNBGhbwSejH6xTAdr7t+KRRb2ZgVsSsJlCnnhX14CR8w17q7D k/eO2FoIl7dv3V5Kj7iQqSbRrhccqVa10jHWAbK6O8j+yCjfejWk2Le/r7Bdg+t/ 5b3WjISljPbhTKf2K4gojXmXyIQYnlirV6EKuQGQJRbWL9zkAqMYdH4I0S9C6SNP GFukn1tp65g/H8Ww93TZovmffKGwsZwYbPCxoMQlRJF5taeb0AUAKwbEyoNgBWY1 FTsgCEzs8cO19wtlqmGdFfGg/7OHQ/eloIvGGDpcQL3u4elWCu+oiA== =W/GZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, The Deviant wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996 pjn@nworks.com wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:25:44 -0500 From: pjn@nworks.com To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Brute-forcing DES
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).
Count me in. I've got a couple of net-connected Pentiums that are mostly idle.
Although I dont have a pentium, I would be glad to put forth some computer power to help.
Might be able to bring some money in by selling "I Helped Crack DES And All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt" T-shirts.
Id buy one! :)
Actually... we might as well print up the t-shirts, and sell them for $15 apeice, then buy a DES cracker with the profit ;)
Seriously though, I'd by the t-shirt, and I'll donate processor time. I can definatly give an 8086 (BALK) to the process, some time on a 80386, and a limited amount of time on some p75's...
--Deviant Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'd get a about 7 t-shirts too ;) and I coud probably donate at least 1 80386, xx% of a 80386, a LITTLE bit of a DEC Alpha or so, probably 1 or 2 808x's and mayby a 80486, and 2 (if someone ports the code) C64's! (Wouldn't it be funnie if thay were the lucky cpu's ?[headlines: DES broken by C64])... How much for {2,4}000000/sec? $60? I buy $600 worth of parts. :) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff - --------------------------- ----------------------------------- pj22298@xx.acs.appstate.edu http://xx.acs.appstate.edu/~pj22298 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMfhgZQxVIXeuPUw9AQFUXwf+ONoCj3ocIiAPA3OtQXP6tA/X+XN9dOoR E0doGjt0otmGueNHxIu/7SrtqODDvhUkIS0x5zcNf9Krj3M7nhH/75proNHms/ra jGfR4vHhMVkIAQ8jETJ++GefOMIUPmPBpuDoAIy8rUofY2qi4+fC5TiUBsWoFibb uSO4mesfTObOMQps+WT8e7jg36ugWZPNATYUIzMa6k5EfUrCy98Zt0AtirJMk0Mv c2qMdjlvkCBj6lfKzITqMLiLkD5EKXHVOmcu9CDkzni/mWlQvx1N+5VdyCN0gc8X 8BcmJPFDUHVAWF7utx3ROpvsuqXpzpbbbtzOoDHKYK01n7W+cbGDhw== =gKYI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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