i think a few hours is a stretch (on a p4 in any event) http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/DES.html
high end gear ... not really, but purpose built and using inadequacies in the standard to optimize the cryptanalysis routine regards, brett On Tuesday 09 November 2004 14:25, James Gregory wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:31:50PM +1100, Toliman wrote: > > and it is 'relatively' secure, in that it would hopefully > > take a p4 a few hours to brute force... more likely in minutes. > > How long is 'a few hours'? I didn't think things were that dire. Are you > talking about a straight brute force or some kind of known-plaintext > attack or what? > > James. > > -- > "Now, there are no problems only opportunities. However, this seemed to be > an insurmountable opportunity." > - http://www.surfare.net/~toolman/temp/diagram.html -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
