From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 16:57:31 -0800 (PST)
To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Subject: Re: "Strong" crypto and export rule changes.
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At 11:55 PM 2/1/97 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>	More seriously, that estimate is the cost of breaking DES on
>custom hardware, based on Wiener's figures.  Ian got RC4-40 in 3.5
>hours on I don't know how much hardware, not a lot of it custom, AFAIK.

http://now.cs.berkeley.edu is the home page for the 
Network Of Workstations CPU farm.  Mostly Suns with some recent
generation of Sparc chip.

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