Re: Breaking DES if you know the answer?
From: Scott Contini (contini_at_matmail.com)
Date: 11/28/03
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Date: 27 Nov 2003 15:50:01 -0800
"Volker Hetzer" <volker.hetzer@ieee.org> wrote in message news:<bq4vhr$2pm$1@news.fujitsu-siemens.com>...
> "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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