From: Ben Byer <root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 23:43:44 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: DES challenge status?
Message-ID: <199701310743.XAA06953@toad.com>
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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 Z|rich).
> 
> 	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?

Ooops!  Mea culpa.  That's what I meant.

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Ben Byer    root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net    I am not a bushing

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