IP: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: MJacobs240 () aol com
> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:58:52 EDT
> Subject: Check out ZDNet: news: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
>  http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2542359,00.html";>Click
>  here: ZDNet: news: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally


Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally

The broken encryption method is widely expected to secure 
next-generation wireless devices. But is the break such bad news?


By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News

UPDATED April 14, 2000 7:06 AM PT

An encryption method widely expected to secure next-generation 
wireless phones and other devices succumbed to a brute-force 
collaborative effort to break it, a French research agency announced 
Thursday.

An international team of researchers -- led by crypto researcher 
Robert Harley of the French National Institute for Research in 
Computer Science and Control, or INRIA -- and other computer 
enthusiasts found the 108-bit key to a scrambled message after four 
months of number crunching by 9,500 computers worldwide.

<snip>