[Gllug] Encryption, was Re: Are there any expect experts out there?

[Anthony Chapman]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 09:48, Tethys wrote:
> Put it this way. Cracking DES is so easy, there's even an O'Reilly book
> about it:
> 
> 	http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/crackdes/
> 
> Moore's law means that to build a hardware crackker like the EFF's
> Deep Crack should now only cost around US$25,000, or less if you
> don't mind it taking a bit longer -- if you were prepared to have it
> take, say, a couple of weeks to crack, then you could probably get
> the price down to under $5,000 -- the price of an entry level server.
> So ultimately, it depends on the data you're encrypting. Does it have
> sufficient value to a competitor (or perhaps someone with a grudge)
> that they'd be prepared to buy a server to get at the data? If it
> does (and if it doesn't, why are you using VPN in the first place?),
> then you want to be using something stronger than DES.

Thats the way I saw it, but after a disagreement about this last week I
was starting to wonder if maybe I was being a bit over zealous.
 
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-Anth


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