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Subject: Re: RSA5 Encryption Cracked.. 
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In message <11F12637A8E@smtp.dancooks.com>, "Jason Hudgins" writes:
>
>    I just thought some of you might be happy to know that the
>Deschall project just successfully cracked an RC5 encrypted message
>with a 56 bit key.  The really cool thing is that it was one of the
>1-2% machines that was running FreeBSD! The majority of the
>machines hacking away cpu cylces were running windows and solaris.
>    They found the key after searching through only 25% of the
>keyspace.  Even though it was really just a matter of luck, I still
>that it was pretty cool.

Just to clarify, it was a 56-bit _DES_ encrypted message [1].

...and I think it's even cooler. <grin>

[1]: "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place."