From: Andy Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 02:31:25 +0800
To: "pjn@nworks.com>
Subject: RE: Distributed DES crack
Message-ID: <01BB797B.3828D900@mirage.nexor.co.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


On 24 July 1996 12:11, pjn@nworks.com wrote:

>  You are assuming that we will not get the right equasion/code/whatever
>  untill the very end.  There is a good chance that it will only take
>  half that time...and a slim chance that we will get it with the first
>  try...

My figures were based on 2^55 tries, which is exactly half of 2^56.


- Andy