From: Remo Pini <rp@rpini.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 22:24:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Distributed DES crack
Message-ID: <9607261128.AA17859@srzts100.alcatel.ch>
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To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri Jul 26 13:25:22 1996
> At 10:30 7/23/96, Matt Blaze wrote:
> 
> >My estimate is that an FPGA-based machine that can do a single DES key
> >every four months (eight months to exhaust the whole keyspace) could
> >be built with off-the-shelf stuff for comfortably under $50k (plus
> >labor, plus software development costs).  A prototype board should
>  cost
> >under $1000 and will help prove the concept and get a more accurate
>  cost
> >estimate.  I expect to build such a prototype machine myself, and, if
>  it
> >works as I expect, maybe the whole thing.
> 
> I am willing to financially contribute to the project.
> 
> 
If this were to be a card (via RS232 or PC-bus), thousands of people would 
be able to copy it, once the development process is finished. -> You'd have 
hardware that all those people could use for a distributed crack, the 
building cost would be distributed also (<$100), only development would 
have to be at one place (sponsored of course). Now, that would be a scary 
thought for DES-fans!

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Remo Pini                            rp@rpini.com
PGP:  http://www.rpini.com/remopini/rpcrypto.html
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