References & Sources  -  August 1, 1998

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Quick cracking of secret code

Cryptographers have dramatically reduced the time required to identify the numerical key for decoding a message encoded with the widely used Data Encryption Standard.

References:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's DES Cracker project is described at http://www.eff.org/descracker.html.

Information about the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) development effort can be found at http://www.nist.gov/aes.

Further Readings:

Additional information about the DES key search project can be found at http://www.cryptography.com/des/index.html.

A Data Encryption Standard fact sheet is available at http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/cryptval/des/des.txt.

Sources:

John Gilmore
Electronic Frontier Foundation
1550 Bryant Street, Suite 725
San Francisco, CA 94103
Web site: http://www.eff.org

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