[Noisebridge-discuss] Meeting notes for today

Jacob Appelbaum jacob at appelbaum.net
Wed Oct 7 20:39:05 UTC 2009


Seth David Schoen wrote:
> dpc writes:
> 
>> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org> writes:
>>
>>> Sai Emrys writes:
>>>
>>>> Announce: Deep Crack offered to NB. Fastest (non-classified) 3DES
>>>> cracker.
>> i no longer have my copy of the book, but are the fpga blocks setup so
>> that one could do whatever s-box structures one liked? (ie, bruting aes
>> or whatever)
>>
>> it is a lot of bandwidth/fpga goo if nothing else.
> 
> It's ASICs, not FPGAs, so I think you're out of luck on all counts.
> The ASICs are completely specialized for (single-)DES key search.
> 

Hi,

These URLS may be helpful to people interested in the history of this
machine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker
http://jya.com/cracking-des/cracking-des.htm
http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/DES-photos.html

Best,
Jake

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