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DES-III Completed 25

Posted by CmdrTaco from the congratulations dept.
David "Nugget94M" McNett writes "DES-III is a wrap, we barely snuck in under the 24-hour mark and won the full US$10,000 prize. Details at distributed.net Congratulations to Team Slashdot for an outstanding showing! " Deep Crack got the winning key. That sucker chewed through an amazing number of keys.
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  • "Haaaaa haaaaa." :)
  • At this rate they might actually be able to pay for that deap crack machine one day.
  • Are there going to be any more DES contests in the future or have they (the RSA) decided that 24 hours is enough proof it's not very good encryption.
    If they do have another DES contest we might have to crack it in 12 hours to get the full prize.
    --
  • The corrected link [distributed.net]
  • distributed.net is /.'ed to hell and back, so if someone
    could post the damn plan, that would be a good thing.
  • Dear other countries:

    Your data which is encrypted with US exported cryto software is now safe for 22 hours. If your arch-rival has >>US$50,000, your data is safe for much less that that.

    Regards,
    United States NSA



  • Alright, who's gonna build the Slashdot team one of those machines?
  • distributed.net gives you graphical stats for you on your personal stats page. Well, if you don't submit at regular intervals the stat has some spikes, but it's good enough.

    If you're new to d.net: go to the main stats page for the current project (for RC5 this is http://rc5stats.distributed.net/) then enter enough of your email in the "individual search" text entry. Click on keyrate history there.
  • http://www.infose.com/jerome/nugget.html
  • Replace the ` with a ? and it works fine.

    Like this [distributed.net]
  • Login: nugget Name: David McNett
    Directory: /home/nugget Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
    Last login Tue Jan 19 19:31 (GMT) on ttyp1 from [hidden]
    New mail received Tue Jan 19 19:58 1999 (GMT)
    Unread since Tue Jan 19 19:32 1999 (GMT)
    Plan:

    :: 19-Jan-1999 19:27 (Tuesday) ::

    It is with considerable excitement (and quite a bit of relief) that I can
    now announce that the DES-III contest is officially ended.

    At 07:15 am PST (14:15 UTC), just about the time when we all started
    getting worried about the 24-hour waypoint, the solution to DES-III
    arrived. The winning key, 92 2C 68 C4 7A EA DF F2, revealed the
    plaintext message:

    The unknown message is: See you in Rome (second AES conference,
    March 22-23, 1999

    The winning key was found by EFF's Deep Crack hardware, and submitted to
    the distributed.net servers immediately. RSA confirmation of the success
    followed shortly thereafter.

    It's truly been a joy and a thrill to work with John Gilmore and the
    other talented and clued people at EFF. Were it not for their
    contributions to distributed.net, the 24-hour deadline would have been
    a much more difficult goal to reach.

    I'll be running stats for the partial 19-Jan work up to the point of
    success and posting them this afternoon for the archives.

    More details will follow soon as the dust settles, RSA is planning a
    12:00 noon PST announcement at the RSA '99 Convention. Both John Gilmore
    and our own Peter Gildea will be in attendance.

    Here's a few statistics on our aggregate success:

    Start of contest: January 18, 1999 at 09:00 PST
    End of contest: January 19, 1999 at 07:15 PST
    Elapsed Time: 22 hours 15 minutes
    Percentage Complete: 22.2%
    Size of keyspace: 72,057,594,037,927,936
    Keys Tested: 16,017,142,616,948,736
    Blocks Tested: 29,834,253
    Overall Keyrate: 199 Gkeys/sec
    Peak Keyrate: 250 Gkeys/sec
  • First, I'd like to congratulate both distributed.net and the EFF on their accomplishment. However, three well-publicized DES cracks before this, no matter how conclusive from an engineering point of view, have failed to convince those who make America's laws of the need for relaxed crypto laws. I have little optimism that this fourth crack will have any more impact on politicians who are more concerned with opinion polls and the appearance of being "tough on terrorists and pedophiles" than in demonstratable results like DES-III or in practical security for law-abiding citizens.

    I'd like to encourage everyone involved in this crack to take the same few minutes they spent setting up their DES clients to also spend a few minutes putting pen to paper (yes, the old fashioned way works best with our less-than-savvy senators) and explain to your representatives why strong, exportable crypto can prevent more crimes than it enables, why it benefits America's economy, and most of all why you'll cast your vote for those who vote accordingly. If enough people get involved, democracy is just another distributed system. :)

    Andrew, who wrote crypto cores for both DESCHALL and d.net.
  • Poor suckers never knew what hit 'em :)

    So can anyone who knows the details post them here?

  • You'd think the straight media would be blaring this out, since it's a BIG story that the secret codes that banks and such rely upon are essentially worthless. Wouldn't you? But no ... instead we get (on ABCNews) [go.com] stories like "Which airline did consumers like best," and "Are you a Type A Driver?"

    Well folks, maybe it's time for cyberdemocracy in action. Here's a list of emails where you can tell the government and the media about this story. I would ask that you please, please, pretty please be courteous and informative and to the point when you email these sites. Maybe this time we can get the message to people that our e-commerce infrastructure is lacking because of government boneheadedness.

    The President [mailto]
    The Vice-President [mailto]
    The ABC News comments page [http]
    The CNN Feedback Page [cnn.com]
    The CBS News Feedback Page [cbs.com]
    The MSNBC Feedback Page [nbcnews.com].

    As my favorite rock star once put it, "Don't just criticize the media...become the media."

  • Wow... (Score:1)

    by Axe ( 11122 )
    ...What's next ?
  • What if Distributed made it so anyone could submit an encrypted message for decryption over the web? I mean, holding a contest to prove something is one thing, but actually providing it as a full time service for whoever wanted it whenever, anonymously, would really force some action to be taken!
  • anyone know where i can find detailed info on this system? go ahead and email me.
    thanks.
  • ack
    But, just one, for d.net ? >:-)
    At least they should have something to
    distribute ;)
  • Well... I can't read his plan now... along with most of what is on www.distributed.net

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