Data Sources for DES Breaking

[Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM]

mpd at netcom.com (Mike Duvos) writes:

> Given that we might embark upon this public demonstration of the
> fragility of single DES, what should we use for test data?

If the goal is to show that the 40bit key used in s/mime is totally insecure,
then one could take some short plaintext likely to occur there and compute
a lookup table, listing its encryption with all possible keys - and make it
available on the internet.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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