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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