From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara at domain ul.ie)
Date: Fri 30 Apr 1999 - 16:33:16 IST
On 30-Apr-99 Paul Kelly wrote:
>Caolan McNamara wrote:
>> >Yup. 56 hours all on their own.
>> now i wonder how id write myself a 40bit rc4 version of this ?
>
>40-bit RC4 should be easy enough to crack in that timescale with a few
>decent Celerons and a dash of hand crafted assembly.
How much is a celeron chip ?, looking at the book they created custom
chips (1536 of them !). They suggest that those on lower budgets could
try using fpga's, but they say that that would be much slower. I suspect
that celeron's would be prohibitivly expensive for that amount, and wouldn;t
be as effective as custom chips.
C.
>
>Paul.
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