Re: Attach on DES paper???

William McVey (wam@cs.purdue.edu)
Thu, 19 Jan 1995 12:59:04 -0500

Alexander Haiut wrote:
>> There was a thread some time back about a paper given at a major conference,
>> I think in summer of '93 about building a machine for $1M that could crack
>> DES in a few hours.
>
>	Yes.. They say 3.5 hours average.. :) I found this paper as:
>    	ftp://gont.cs.purdue.edu/pub/doc/cryptography/des_key_search.ps.Z
>	
>		Enjoy!		--alex.

As a minor nit, you may want to use coast archive's cname
(coast.cs.purdue.edu) rather than the machine's real name
(gont.cs.purdue.edu).  If the COAST archive ever moves to a different
machine, the cname will (most likely) be changed.  The underlying
machine name may not be.

 -- William