DES cracked by teenagers?

[David G. Koontz]

Grant Bayley wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 


Gronk.

Sounds like a dictionary attack.



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