SecurityRatty: Declassifying the DES Challenge Software

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Declassifying the DES Challenge Software

2007-02-14 00:00:00 by Burt Kaliski in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

As I mentioned during the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference last week, Rocke Verser has just expired the non-disclosure agreement he placed on the source code for DESCHALL, the program that did the exhaustive key search to solve RSA Laboratories' first DES Challenge in 1997. Rocke had asked participants in the distributed effort to keep his speedups secret for 10 years, due to potential proprietary applications of the software...