Re: Has 3des been broken

From: Andrew Chong (andrewjw@singnet.com.sg)
Date: 12/30/01 

From: "Andrew Chong" <andrewjw@singnet.com.sg>
To: "Dante Mercurio" <dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:06:53 +0800

AES will replace DES and 3DES. On Oct 2, 2000, NIST announced the selection
of the Rijindael block cipher as the proposed AES algorithm.

Andrew Chong, CISSP
Senior System Architect

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From: "Dante Mercurio" <dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com>
To: <lance@mytruespeed.com>; <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 4:36 AM
Subject: RE: Has 3des been broken

Still purely theoretical. IBM just got a quantum computer to factor the
number 9. Gonna take a few more years before they can tackle 3des. Then
once they come out with quantum computers to crack conventional
encryption, you just switch over to quantum encryption. =)

M. Dante Mercurio, CCNA, MCSE+I, CCSA
Consulting Services Manager
Continental Consulting Group, LLC

www.ccgsecurity.com <http://www.ccgsecurity.com>

dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com <mailto:dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lance@mytruespeed.com [mailto:lance@mytruespeed.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 2:49 PM
> To: Dante Mercurio; security-basics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Has 3des been broken
>
>
>
> This is true on current technology,but MIT, US Govt., England
> etc. etc. are working on quantom computers that can break DES in
> a few min. How much computer power do these governments have?
> Way beyond terahertz, but have they hit petahertz?
>
>
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> 3des has not been broken. Check www.distributed.net if you'd like
> to be
> including in any encrytion breaking project they have
> running. I don't think they are attempting 3des as of right
> now, as the theoretical
> time
> it would take to crack it is way beyond any computers that are
> currently
> in existance. I think it's still at something like a million
> years using every computer currently made. =)
>
> M. Dante Mercurio, CCNA, MCSE+I, CCSA
> Consulting Services Manager
> Continental Consulting Group, LLC
>
www.ccgsecurity.com <http://www.ccgsecurity.com>

dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com
<mailto:dmercurio@ccgsecurity.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: leon [mailto:leon@inyc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 2:35 AM
> To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Has 3des been broken
>
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of any instances (through
> things like distributed computing or supercomputers) that
> triple des have been broken?
>
> Thx,
>
> Leon

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