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Ben Byer wrote:

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What exactly is the status of RSA's DES contest? I understand that at least two of the smaller contests have already been cracked, but I haven't seen much beyond theoretical discussion on the list on the topic of the DES contest.

Two? The only publicized solution so far is the RC5/32/12/5 solution from Ian Goldberg at Berkeley (and independently from Germano Caronni at ETH Z|rich).

Are you saying that you know that the 48 bit RC5 contest is solved already, or are you just counting Ian's and Germano's solutions separately?

Ooops! Mea culpa. That's what I meant. - -- Ben Byer root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net I am not a bushing -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMvFohbD5/Q37XXHFAQFBIQL+IiN8gFqyjvxhvJ6C0hN4KecTbD82Vwmp nD0w79LxR0fX+E4unJf/QvEdVh8FkrMqwO39MtYB3dIXqepljOlKDjs7DveRv+Fp eGtCSl7OayCdgtKUe32ELr+px0Y8Rsqj =UZps -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----