Re: Breaking DES if you know the answer?

From: Volker Hetzer (volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:51:52 +0100

"Glen Burson" <glen.burson@virgin.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:981ab989.0311270452.4893a1ee@posting.google.com...
> I've read a few articles about how it would take many, many years to
> do a brute force attact on DES (unless you have special hardware).
>
> But is it possible to discover the key if you know the answer to the
> problem? What I mean is that if I have an encrypted string e.g.
> sdlkjsklj23u0ioj;'=sdklj;2309ds, and I know it decrypts to "hello
> glen", can I figure out the key?
This *is* the scenario that takes the "many, many years" unless you
use special hardware.

Greetings!
Volker

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