re off the shelf cheap des keyseach machine was re corporate acceptance of the wiretap chip 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 shadwell hated all southerners and by inference was standing at the north pole good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchett
