- Original Message -
From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: SHA1 broken?
Joseph Ashwood wrote:
I believe you are incorrect in this statement. It is a matter of public
record that RSA Security's DES Challenge II was broken in 72 hours
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:40:33PM -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Until, of course, people figure out that taggants on everything do nothing
but confuse evidence and custody, not help it.
Go ask the guys in the firearms labs about *that* one.
I like Bruce Schneier's take on this:
The idea is
Actually, the final challenge was solved in 23 hours, about
1/3 Deep Crack, and 2/3 Distributed.net. They were lucky, finding
the key after only 24% of the keyspace had been searched.
More recently, RC5-64 was solved about a year ago. It took
d.net 4 *years*.
2^69 remains non-trivial.
Peter
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid=2233
A bit sparse on details, but a good overview of all sorts of secure
protocols. Our friends Alice and Bob are of course present in various
orgies of secure protocols. :)
