On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Gary McKinney wrote: [snip] > One caveat here - make sure you are running 128-bit encryption as there is > hardware available now that would allow brute-force decryption of 64-bit DES > in about 48-hours or so... (Ah - the wonders of technology) and do not cost > a great deal to implement (less than $2000 USD - Don't ask - If you do not > know I am not saying)....
This is getting slightly offtopic: Gary is pointing to the EFF DES cracker, more info can be found at http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19980716_eff_des_faq.html It will cost you slightly more that $2.000, but it is clear that DES is not a protocol to rely on if you wish complete security. (Small note: 64 bits encryption is actually 56-bit DES, since 12.5% of the bits are used for error detection). Regards, Johannes
