Brute Force DES
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Wed Jul 24 13:22:06 PDT 1996
The Deviant writes:
> Buy the point is to prove that DES shouldn't be used, not that it CAN
> be brute forced. A known-plaintext attack doesn't show that. We hafta
> attack something we've never seen. (i.e. talk Netscape, or some other
> company, into generating a DES'd message, and keeping the keys safe)
Known plaintext isn't needed. You just need a plaintext with some
decent statistical properties.
Dave Wagner has some information on this.
Perry
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