From: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:26:11 -0800 (PST)
To: Ian Goldberg <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: RC5-12/32/5 contest solved
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Any bets on whether the $5000 RC5-12/32/6 contest will be solved 
before the www.rsa.com contest status web page is updated?  :-)

Or how long before someone in the government starts talking about
how 56 bits takes 65,000 times as long to solve as 40 bits, 
which is 26 years for a whole building full of computers,
and even 48 bits ought to take a month and a half for a whole
building full of computers (or supercomputers, if they hype it up....)?

At 09:55 PM 1/28/97 +0100, Germano Caronni <caronni@tik.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
>challenge: RC5-32/12/5
>time: from start of contest until Tue Jan 28 21:54:58 1997
>method: massive distributed coordinated keysearch, details later

which was a bit slower than Ian Goldberg's crack, but pretty close.
How many machines were you using, on average?



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