Count me in: Good reason to get the XT (!!!!!!) and the 12Mhz Vendex286 out of the garage ... We can throw in the Mac too if the code's portable. And the 486-100. And you can have McArthur, the P-133, after bedtime. And the 486-20 portable, why not? I'm also available for assembler coding/optimizing on a limited basis. Excellent project! 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

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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).