>At 3:31 PM -0500 6/18/97, David McNett wrote:
>
>>Allow me to be the first to mention that there is a serious effort to
>>break 56-bit RC5 already underway at http://rc5.distributed.net.
>
>They could really benefit from the deschall programmers... their client
>runs at about one third the speed the DESCHALL client did on my Mac...
>
Actually, the RC5 algorythm is tougher, plus the DES clients checked
pairs (so we really had a 55 bit keyspace), so for every key it
checked, it eliminated a second automatically. For this reason, I
expect the RC5 client to not excede half the speed of DESCHALL.
However, there is a new RC5 client expected this week for x86 machines.
Colin L. Hildinger
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