Re: Non-PK encryption not vulnerable via low key length?!

[proff () suburbia apana org au (Julian Assange)]

> Dear Jake,
>
>
>       That was Michael J. Wiener of Bell Northern Research in 1993.
> The paper is 'Efficient DES Key Search'. His proposed machine would have
> cost about $1M and would have found a key in about 3.5 hours.
>
>       Shalom,
>
>       JBB.

Note that DES keyspace is 2^56, not 2^64, which would take 256 times as
long to search (but still well within reach of major organizations).

Cheers,
        Julian Assange (-Proff-)