Cracking DES
by John Gilmore, Mike Loukides · first published 1998
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…you don't have a huge up front investment in masks and wafers. So a decent FPGA set up would probably set you back $10K but you could re-design at will into different sort of 'coin' miners. The book 'Cracking DES'[1] talks about building an array of FPGAs to brute force DES keys. If you are at all interested in ASIC/FPGA based crypto 'mining' you should have and read that book. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Des-Encryption-Research-Polit...
on “AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution” ↗In 1998, the EFF and John Gilmore published the book about "Deep Crack" called "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design". But at the time, it would have been illegal to publish the code on a web site, or include a CDROM with the book publishing the "Deep…
on “Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64” ↗According to John Gilmore, when the EFF published the book about the "Deep Crack" DES cracker hardware titled "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design" [1], the US Government would not allow them to publish the software source code on a floppy or CDROM along with the book, because the…
on “A Government Error Just Revealed Snowden Was the Target in the Lavabit Case” ↗…admitted that adding backdoors decreases security but that it is worth it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916938 In 1998, the EFF and John Gilmore published the book about "Deep Crack" called "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design". But at the time, it would have been illegal to publish the code on a web site, or include a CDROM with the book publishing the "Deep…
on “Stop Calling It “Military-Grade Encryption”” ↗Really well written comment about the history of these challenges and distributed.net. “Cracking DES”, a book published by the EFF, contains the necessary information to build your own Deep Crack DES brute force appliance. It’s available in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/crackingdes00elec
on “All Mersenne prime exponents below 100m tested at least once” ↗…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker Maybe somebody interested in retro-crypto-computing could write a Deep Crack emulator for modern GPUs! All the specs and sources for the hardware and software are published in the free book "Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design". I wonder how fast it could run now -- it would be cool to run it in browsers with WebGPU! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19916938…
on “Intel unveils BonanzaMine, a Bitcoin accelerator ASIC” ↗