DES

[Brad Huntting]

> My take on breaking DES would be to just try all 2**56th keys on a 
> massively parallel machine, though there may be better approaches.

A massively parallel colection of dedicated DES encryption hardware
might be more cost effective if had alot of these things to crack.

Speaking of which, does anyone know who makes "the DES chip" (is
there more than one?)? I'd like to find a data sheet for it.


brad