1996-07-24 - Cracking DES or building a DES cracking machine?

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 85deabdc0d832db72ede26923eac912d60fe39a4b247ecbd7425888a6e80b908
Message ID: <199607240124.UAA12269@manifold.algebra.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-24 04:24:50 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:24:50 +0800

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:24:50 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Cracking DES or building a DES cracking machine?
Message-ID: <199607240124.UAA12269@manifold.algebra.com>
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Hm,

If we are talking about convincing 100,000 people to donate a lot 
of their CPU time, would not it be possible to convince the same
100,000 people to donate $10 each and build a $1,000,000 DES cracking
machine?

Then we can crack DES keys for a certain sum per key, without asking
any unnecessary questions. Profits can be donated to purchasing AK-47's
for poor preschool children or some similar charitable project.

	- Igor.





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