At 11:55 PM 2/1/97 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:

More seriously, that estimate is the cost of breaking DES on custom hardware, based on Wiener's figures. Ian got RC4-40 in 3.5 hours on I don't know how much hardware, not a lot of it custom, AFAIK.

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