Hello Ming,
They were not exactly attacks. These were a set of challenges offered
by RSA Labs (with prizes).
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/
http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/97challenge/html/status.html
http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm (winner of DES)
http://rc5.distributed.net/ (winner of RC5-32/12/7)
For those that don't wish to follow the URLs,
Challenge time to crack Prize
RC5-32/12/5 (40bit key) 3.5 hrs US$ 1,000.
RC5-32/12/6 (48bit key) 313 hrs US$ 5,000.
DES (56bit key) 140 days US$10,000.
RC5-32/12/7 (56bit key) 265 days US$10,000.
(And there's US$90,000. in prize money left in the other challenges.)
Later,
Chris Lonvick
Cisco Systems
Corporate Consulting
Houston, TX, USA
+1.713.778.5663
At 06:03 PM 11/24/97 -0500, Ming Lu wrote:
>Franco:
>
>I would like to see reports reagding these successful attacks. I could
>not find them at CERT.
>
>TIA.
>
>On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Franco RUGGIERI wrote:
>
>> Recently (June and October this year), attacks have been successfully
>> accomplished against DES and RC5 65 bit, by a huge number of computers
>> coordinated via Internet. Since participation in such effort was voluntary,
>> I wouldn't define such coordination as *strict*. Thus, we can assume that a
>> well determined organization would break codes based on keys up to 56 bit
>> in a reasonable amount of time. Therefore I wouldn't recommend VPNs based
>> on such systems (RCx, DES and the likes with *short*keys), unless for what
>> I would dub *minor areas* and for not long lasting applications.
>> This, of course, IMHO. I would appreciate comments (not flames!) on this
>> viewpoint of mine.
>> -------------------------------
>> Franco RUGGIERI
>> fruggieri @
selfin .
net
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>
>_ming
>
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