Cracking DES or building a DES cracking machine?
Hm, If we are talking about convincing 100,000 people to donate a lot of their CPU time, would not it be possible to convince the same 100,000 people to donate $10 each and build a $1,000,000 DES cracking machine? Then we can crack DES keys for a certain sum per key, without asking any unnecessary questions. Profits can be donated to purchasing AK-47's for poor preschool children or some similar charitable project. - Igor.
If we are talking about convincing 100,000 people to donate a lot of their CPU time, would not it be possible to convince the same 100,000 people to donate $10 each and build a $1,000,000 DES cracking machine?
Or enough magnetic tape or CD-R to pre-compute a lookup table, accessible via the Internet? Hmm, taking one byte and running it through 2^40 keys will produce exactly 1024GB values. Mag tape is dollars / megabyte: it seems possible to take a known clear text (like "cypherpunks") and compute a lookup table that would take a look at the encryption and list the key(s) that match. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Hm,
If we are talking about convincing 100,000 people to donate a lot of their CPU time, would not it be possible to convince the same 100,000 people to donate $10 each and build a $1,000,000 DES cracking machine?
Then we can crack DES keys for a certain sum per key, without asking any unnecessary questions. Profits can be donated to purchasing AK-47's for poor preschool children or some similar charitable project.
- Igor.
Yea, but how keep the machine? How pays for power? etc... By spliting up over this type of network we defente several things: Utilities/Facilities - power, heating/cooling. Taxes - We neither create an orginzation nor profit, Porfit - Thars' none, so no one complains. And we [MIGHT] save the time to have such a thing built. [ But if we do make the machine, I Wan't it when we're done] - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- Losing intrest? Try a new bank. - --------------------------- ----------------------------------- pj22298@xx.acs.appstate.edu http://xx.acs.appstate.edu/~pj22298 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMfhnJwxVIXeuPUw9AQFYPQf/StKZCEAybMCC4iuMgYtpwYX1NJ9Bv+F0 ZGCi5uZ5lvW/SHr83LseRHT80Wf0ynKZc/fVlgmp7xe56sNxubsf+0swz1noBTZp umZNOFLYQBp4eJ9+M8KHadx7mx5nDGtWjcbmCh4r8SDv0n5aM21eDNvtsLwt9xfW nE9G1DBf8NrJO/sMQFULCJP5i+LFvsv71kVB4Xw/Y4seQoOrZWDvSDxRDQSqen+U VmOmpmY3D1reyDl8StQ5kuQoXzsaT+TtEG5dWHH23FLZE/SE7GoMsTDAodpTq8ET Q01hnQpSAQp3WOwhzXXbOO2ON2sP7MKqVj+HAsJ1us9SSEHy9CqTRg== =5OcK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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