re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip in article apr jarvis csri toronto edu lewis eecg toronto edu david lewis writes in article bb c mizzou missouri edu c mizzou missouri edu john kelsey writes strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes stuff deleted but who would trust his her confidential information to an encryption scheme that for say could by cracked one time in a hundred des for all the complaints about a bit key would probably cost several million dollars to build a keysearch machine for i can buy a des keysearch machine off the shelf now for approx k but it is not sold by that name go buy a circuit emulation machine eg quickturn containing a bunch of fpgas say to s and program each to be a des search engine lets say chips running at mhz g tests sec time is e sec max weeks weeks average can t wait that long buy a bigger machine oh but can big brother afford such things in these times of tight budgets i don t know how many folks noticed it but dorothy trust me denning gave a real clue to the current state of the art at nsa on decrypto machines when she said the nsa told her they didn t even want to be the holder of any part of the key now why is that i doubt there is a trapdoor in skipjack but we will never know and i doubt the nsa would promote a mass market chip they couldn t compromise ergo nsa is now capable of compromising probably with brute force keysearch engines of the complexity of skipjack look at the specs why i bet they have thousands of little chips chugging away in their crypto busters maybe even tens of thousands complexity not much more than a how many such machines will fit into fort meade i think pgp should have bit idea keys information farming at for addr phone finger a a the ohio state university jebright magnus acs ohio state edu jim ebright e mail jre osu edu support privacy support encryption
