Last nail for US crypto export policy?

sameer sameer at c2.net
Tue Jan 28 22:56:05 PST 1997


http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/

> Yee-hah!  Congratulations (and enjoy the $1000 check!)
> So what did you do interesting cryptographically in the crack, 
> other than coordinating a bunch of workstations?
> Was it just brute force with well-tuned code?
> Given the figures in your press release, it sounds like you
> tested about 350 billion keys out of a trillion possible,
> so you hit the winner a shade early.  That's about 400,000 keys/sec/box.
> Are the machines mostly Pentiums, Alphas, Suns, etc.?



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