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1996-10-03 - Re: Can we kill single DES?

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Message Hash: 1b7ab5f35e6f9d3993f92abcd8855f4d1bd364a97104b62ef51d0e71d42e0cca
Message ID: <199610021554.LAA06282@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199610020527.HAA24482@odin.funcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-03 03:22:20 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:22:20 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 11:22:20 +0800
To: frank@funcom.no (Frank Andrew Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Can we kill single DES?
In-Reply-To: <199610020527.HAA24482@odin.funcom.com>
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Frank Andrew Stevenson writes:
> This location is send to the keyserver, which sends back highly
> compressed information about where other people are running their
> "screensavers", the screensaver itself can simply display a rotating
> globe, where the different densities of global usage is given in
> colour shades, showing an inverse sunclock of sorts. I think such a
> concept might give the DES-cracking screensaver a critical mass.

Sounds like fun, actually -- are you volunteering to write it?

.pm

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