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Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:44:37 -0500
Someone just sent me this URL. It's too funny....
http://www.islandnet.com/~aweeks/encr.htm
[...]
"DES is one of the most secure technologies for commercial applications. It
was introduced for military use in the mid 1980's, then migrated to civilian
platforms.
"Several versions of DES encryption exist. These versions have different "key
lengths," or formats, varying from 40 to 80 bits.
[...]
"In mid1996 a small message encrypted with a similar technology was decoded
using two banks of 120 extremely high-speed 32-bit Sparc workstations
connected to two supercomputers running 24 hours a day for eight days.
"This small message was encrypted with a 40 bit key - half the size of
RBackup's. In a statistically best-case scenario, the same computer system
could theoretically crack the first layer of an RBackup archive in 64 days"
[...]
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:21