Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:36:49 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au Subject: FreeBSD cracks DES Message-ID: <199706190736.RAA10587@troll.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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Well, well, well. DES busted by a FreeBSD box. This gave me a smirk. :-)
Snipped from the cryptography list:
>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:46:19 -0600
>From: Rocke Verser <rcv@dopey.verser.frii.com>
>To: deschall-announce@gatekeeper.megasoft.com
>Subject: WE FOUND IT!
>Sender: owner-deschall-announce@gatekeeper.megasoft.com
>
> "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place."
>
>That's the message RSA has been waiting for us to decipher.
>And we did it!
>
>The correct key (8558891AB0C851B6) was reported to RSA Data Security
>shortly before midnight last night (Mountain Time). RSA's automated
>server acknowledged our win!
Also from the cryptography list:
>Project statistics:
> Start of contest: January 29, 1997
> Announcement of DESCHALL project: February 18, 1997
> End of contest: June 17, 1997
>
> Size of keyspace: 72,057,594,037,927,936
> Keys searched: 17,731,502,968,143,872
> Peak keys/day: 601,296,394,518,528
> Peak keys/second: 7,000,000,000 (approx)
>
> Peak clients/day: 14,000 (approx, based on IP address)
> Total clients, since start: 78,000 (approx, based on IP address)
>
>The computer that found the key:
> CPU: Pentium 90
> RAM: 16 megabytes
> Operating System: FreeBSD 2.2.1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Speed (keys/second): 250,000 (approx)
> Client: FreeBSD v0.214, built March 12, 1997
> Owner: iNetZ Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah
> Operator: Michael K. Sanders
I'll be checking this out as soon as I can get to the web. Their blurb
on the DES challenge is at:
http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
Stephen.
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