From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 12 May 1999 - 17:28:58 IST
>> It strikes me that cracking RC5 is a waste of time - I mean, the most
>> interesting thing that can happen is that we find out "yes, it's
>> crackable", which is basically known already.
> Yes but how long and how much power it took to do it will give them
> some very valuable information. Such as it allows then to know how much
> processing power would be needed to do it in X amount of time, etc etc etc.
> Which I think IS valuable information.
Er.
It will take, on average:
size of key space
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2 * number_of_computers * average_keys_per_second_per_computer
Not that thrilling, really.
Colm
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