DES cracked by teenagers?

[Grant Bayley]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Steve Bellovin wrote:

> According to http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867&intcatid=1,
> some teenagers "reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data
> Encryption Standard (DES)".  I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it
> out.  Anyone have any details?
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> 				  http://www.wilyhacker.com

Anyone else think this sounds like an older machine with DES crypt()
passwords and a downloaded copy of John The Ripper?




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