DESCHALL Press Release (fwd)
Mike Duvos
enoch at zipcon.net
Wed Jun 18 16:28:10 PDT 1997
> INTERNET-LINKED COMPUTERS CHALLENGE DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD
[snip]
> At the time the winning key was reported to RSADSI, the DESCHALL effort
> had searched almost 25% of the total. At its peak over the recent
> weekend, the DESCHALL effort was testing 7 billion keys per second.
A quick question. Was finding the key by searching less than a quarter
of the keyspace just luck? Or did the DESCHALL folks exclude keyspace
already searched by competing efforts?
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