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1996-07-23 - Re: Borders are transparent

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From: Paul Foley <paul@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
To: trei@process.com
Message Hash: 73fad6f02c763a44630bf584bacf633a1a1c7c90996fdde5ce73f144e0c9dab6
Message ID: <199607221650.EAA01429@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
Reply To: <199607221420.HAA00786@toad.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-23 00:49:31 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:49:31 +0800

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From: Paul Foley <paul@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:49:31 +0800
To: trei@process.com
Subject: Re: Borders *are* transparent
In-Reply-To: <199607221420.HAA00786@toad.com>
Message-ID: <199607221650.EAA01429@mycroft.actrix.gen.nz>
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"Peter Trei" <trei@process.com> wrote:

   Any one up for a distributed brute force attack on single DES? My 
   back-of-the-envelope calculations and guesstimates put this on the
   hairy edge of doability (the critical factor is how many machines can
   be recruited - a non-trivial cash prize would help). 

Not quite sure what you mean by "doability" -- it's obviously doable,
it just depends how long you want to wait.

I'm in.

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