From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 15:58:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17230 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17217 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id TAA05919; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:00:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:00:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black To: "Michael K. Sanders" cc: Jason Hudgins , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RSA5 Encryption Cracked.. In-Reply-To: <199706182220.QAA00811@shell.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk yes, i suspected it was the DES crack effort, and yes it is even cooler. this is excellent ammunition for lifting export restrictions (assuming the clinton administration doesn't shove kerrey's bill through). On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Michael K. Sanders wrote: > 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. > > [1]: "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place." >