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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: John Kodis <kodis@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] cryptographic signatures & factotum
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:23:39 +0000
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In article <028201c4083a$ac71c8c0$67844051@SOMA>, boyd, rounin wrote:

>  i'm implying that DES died 10+ years back.  i carried out the odd
>  'experiment' with some fast h/w and large amounts of disk [then].
>  DES unix password cracking came down to a grep of 4096 files, so a
>  few seconds.

Do you mean fast general-purpose hardware, or fast special-purpose
hardware?  Could you explain your general approach?

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John Kodis                                    Goddard Space Flight Center
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