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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:43 ADT
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> $684.93 is the cost of snakeoil.
>
> That's how much it costs to break a DES key right now.
>
> Take $250,000, divide it by 2, and that gives you the amortized cost of
> Gilmore's DES cracker over a single "half-life", one iteration of Moore's
> Law. Divide that $125k by the year and a half that half-life takes
> (365*1.5), and multiply it by three days, and you get the now proven,
> *demonstrated* cost of a broken DES key, which is $684.93. Modulo the
> percentage of keyspace searched when the Gilmore hit paydirt, whatever that
> was.
So ...
Is someone going to build a DES cracker and start cracking DES keys for a
fee?
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:43 ADT