Brute Force Attacks on DES

• Try all possible keys until a “match” is found.

• Early 1998, 40 days using 50,000 CPUs on the Internet, about 85% of the key space searched.

• July 1998, 56 hours using specially designed hardware (EFF DES Cracker) which costs about US$250,000.

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