PRZ: ``is DES dead? ''
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From: Philip Zimmermann
From prz Wed Sep 1 14:11:48 1993 Message-Id: <9309012010.AA10083@columbine.cgd.ucar.EDU> Subject: Re: DES Key Search Paper To: wiener@bnr.ca (Michael) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 14:10:18 MDT From: Philip Zimmermann
Cc: prz (Philip Zimmermann) In-Reply-To: <"15836 Wed Sep 1 12:14:00 1993"@bnr.ca>; from "Michael" at Aug 31, 93 11:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Thanks, Michael. Your paper was the most important paper presented at Crypto93, in my opinion. It drove a wooden stake thru DES's heart.
$1 million - 3.5 hours $10 miliion - 20 minutes $100 million - 2 minutes
It is not plausible to me that NSA's budget for examining DES-encrypted traffic is less than $100 million. Two minutes. Damn. Two fucking minutes. DES is dead, dead, dead.
Regards, Philip
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