Distributed DES crack

[talon57 at well.com]

Matt Blaze scribes:

>My estimate is that an FPGA-based machine that can do a single DES
>key every four months (eight months to exhaust the whole keyspace)
>could be built with off-the-shelf stuff for comfortably under $50k
>(plus labor, plus software development costs).  A prototype board
>should cost under $1000 and will help prove the concept and get a
>more accurate cost estimate.  I expect to build such a prototype
>machine myself, and, if it works as I expect, maybe the whole
>thing.

>-matt

If the price is reasonable, I for one would be willing to donate
the bucks for a FPGA chip or two to see this get built:

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| Chip donated by  |
| talon57 at well.com |
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The very existance of this device in the real world would make our
point better than anything I've yet heard.

Imagine being at a hearing and having the physical device sitting
there before the judges......

Brian