From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:39:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Cracking DES or building a DES cracking machine?
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> 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?

Or enough magnetic tape or CD-R to pre-compute a lookup table,
accessible via the Internet? Hmm, taking one byte and running it
through 2^40 keys will produce exactly 1024GB values. Mag tape
is dollars / megabyte: it seems possible to take a known clear
text (like "cypherpunks") and compute a lookup table that would
take a look at the encryption and list the key(s) that match.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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