re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip ag russell arussell austin ibm com wrote at the company i worked for previously i received a file that was des encryped and the person that had sent it went on vaction rather than wait two weeks i set up a straight frontal attack with one key at a time it only took two days to crack the file no i don t have any faith in des then it was either really good luck or you had some very fast machine des has possible keys each two of which are simply to convert into each other so you have to expect trial encryptions in the mean case assuming known plaintext is ca so you must have managed to do encryptions per microsecond ce infosys builds a very fast des chip that manages encryptions per microsecond yes i m not very seriously bothered about the security of des yet though you might prefer to use triple des or idea both of which use more key bits joerg joerg czeranski email czeranski rz tu clausthal de osteroeder strasse smtp injc w clausthal zellerfeld voice at work germany voice at home to obtain pgp public key finger injc sun rz tu clausthal de or email me
