1997-06-17 - Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
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Raw Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:41:31 +0800

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From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:41:31 +0800
To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [DES] Anguilla surpasses US military in code breaking challe
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The DESCHALL source is available under NDA. The timings of the various 
DESCHALL clients are on their homepage at 
http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm


-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Paul Bradley wrote:

> 
> > They have not released their source code for independent 
> > evaluation. I for one would feel a lot more comfortable with
> > DESChall if there was at least some outside review, even if
> > no general release is made.
> 
> I do not keep up with the various DES challenge efforts: Did DESChall 
> ever give a reason for not releasing source code?
> Has anyone tried reverse engineering the executable? 
> 
> Does anyone have statistics on how quick deschall is as opposed to, for 
> example, Bryddes? If they haven`t released source code and it is 
> significantly faster it may be they have further key schedule 
> optimisations they do not wish to share.






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