From: Anil Das <see.sig@for.address.real>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:00:54 -0800 (PST)
To: Ben Byer <root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net>
Subject: Re: DES challenge status?
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Ben Byer wrote:
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> What exactly is the status of RSA's DES contest?  I understand that at
> least two of the smaller contests have already been cracked, but I
> haven't seen much beyond theoretical discussion on the list on the
> topic of the DES contest.
> 

	Two? The only publicized solution so far is the
RC5/32/12/5 solution from Ian Goldberg at Berkeley
(and independently from Germano Caronni at ETH Zürich).

	Are you saying that you know that the 48 bit RC5
contest is solved already, or are you just counting Ian's
and Germano's solutions separately?

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Anil Das