Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:56:55 -0400 From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DES Challenge Message-ID: <19970411195655.56717@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970411145036.235J-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Fri, Apr 11, 1997 at 02:58:11PM -0300 References: <19970411102303.56819@vinyl.quickweb.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.970411145036.235J-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Fri, Apr 11, 1997 at 02:58:11PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Mark Mayo wrote: > > > Hi, I just thought I'd let everyone know that a "for real", organized > > distributed attack on DES is underway (under the terms for the agreement > > with the RSA Challenge '97). > > Actually, this has been going on since March 18th, 1997...major old > news... > > > > > So if you feel like contributing to the cause, point your browser at > > http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm > > Ummmm...you might want to check out http://www.vex.net/rsacrack, > since we've been working at that "organized distributed attack" for the past, > what, month and a half now? And, proudly, FreeBSD constitutes almost 41% of > the 231 hosts so far working at it :) Well, let's look at is this way: the vex.net effort has 231 hosts working, and is cracking at a rate of 23 million keys/sec. The DESCHALL effort has 1619 clients, and is cracking at a rate of 30 trillion keys/sec... In 25 days, DESCHALL has tested 348305938710528 keys, and if the current rate of new hosts coming online continues, the code will be cracked in under a year, perhaps even less. In other words, DESCHALL is outpacing you by a HUGE margin. Maybe you should coorinate your effort with DESCHALL, and this thing might actually happen! It would be so neat to see "the Net" crack DES in a matter of months! -Mark > Marc G. Fournier > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark finger mark@quickweb.com for my PGP key and GCS code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. -Sir Peter Imbert
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