-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Tue Jul 23 13:52:47 1996 At 10:32 AM 7/22/96 -0006, Peter Trei 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'm in with: 2x Pentium75 1x 486DX50 (all machines Win NT 4.0, it would have to be an Intel runnable algorithm) - --------< fate favors the prepared mind >-------- Remo Pini rp@rpini.com PGP: http://www.rpini.com/remopini/rpcrypto.html - ------< words are what reality is made of >------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMfS9FBFhy5sz+bTpAQFV6gf/ZkarvomYeMqyHSGz5yAtLPey6ucFx1AJ 1PfqZV/UJp92d9tX9DmfESHTqZcyCRDHq9+ziDh5vRr5PHovVVOkg9TClssYYk3l M75EZ20bNohI3ISTH28yUN9H/JdxvlPrDQp7Gwa0LU9QFhBsmpzaLbyL+aas1DA7 sUD6Yc8wBTg95OswYkOqc49DzyEdH6obfL0NhN2QuaSvJDIV/8vfdr08ZhW2ZGfF TmbGf8z3lWpuZpzhIDRypb74xrg0PJHuvL0OMsEe3HV0euUCpvCwK18YlAaJLoW9 R9Pep6Cq5u+13MDlYM20OZ+RVpUPvKrCY0t0//W8OArgiVCiaC7tVw== =tUpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----