re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip in article apr lokkur dexter mi us scs lokkur dexter mi us steve simmons writes smb research att com steven bellovin writes thousands tens of thousands do some arithmetic please skipjack has possible keys let s assume a brute force engine like that hypothesized for des microsecond per trial million chips that s trials per second or about years for trials well maybe they can get chips running at one trial per nanosecond and build a machine with million chips sure only years for each solution normally i d be the last to argue with steve but shouldn t that read years for all solutions i mean if we can imagine the machine that does trial nanosecond we can imagine the storage medium that could index and archive it 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 a g a g russell dept a s oltp section of pals group vm id sc at ausvm email arussell austin ibm com phone tieline these are my views on anyone else they would look silly free the berkeley
