DES key found in 22.25 hours by Deep Crack and Distributed.net

Matt Blaze (mab@research.att.com)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:22:08 -0500

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I'm surprised not to have seen any discussion about this on the lists,
so perhaps this has already been mentioned and I missed it.

At the RSA conference yesterday, it was announced that the team
of Deep Crack and Distributed.net solved (and won) the third RSA DES
challenge in just 22.25 hours.

See
 <http://www.eff.org/DESCracker/>
and
 <http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/HTML/19990119_deschallenge3.html>

for details.

-matt

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