re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip jon lnes jon ifi uio no writes a person i know belonging to a research lab of a rivate company claimed to me during a priavte conversation that given the equipment in his lab he could crack a kerberos ticket in minutes to an hour he had access to rather powerful des hardware but not of an extraordinare kind i believe the attack was possible because of the amount of known plaintext in the ticket which itself constitutes a small message this was two years ago that would be a v ticket presumably not a v ticket the v ticket format can even be complicated several more orders of magnitude lyle transarc grant street the gulf tower pittsburgh
