From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Thu 13 May 1999 - 15:32:31 IST
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Paul Kelly wrote:
And when someone builds that specialized machine which will crush rc5-64
like a paper cup inside a week, then we shall be suitably impressed. As
it stands distributed.net are scoring an own-goal, creating a four-year
benchmark that looks really bad compared to how long it would take a
determined organization to do the trick.
If a bunch of university researchers can build the hardware to crack
des-2 for ~$300k - then do you not suppose that the NSA might already
have the hardware to rc5-64 within a day or so?
The point is that any cryptography sanctioned by the US is probably
already easily crackable.
-- Paul Jakma paul at domain clubi.ie http://hibernia.clubi.ie PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt ------------------------------------------- Fortune: I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. -- Camillo Di Cavour
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