Distributed DES crack
Lucky Green
shamrock at netcom.com
Fri Jul 26 03:30:52 PDT 1996
At 10:30 7/23/96, Matt Blaze wrote:
>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.
I am willing to financially contribute to the project.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock at netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred.
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