From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:30:52 +0800
To: Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>
Subject: Re: Distributed DES crack
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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.



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