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SSL challenge?

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NODE f1775e7aSSL challenge?
Where does the effort to bruteforce SSL stand?

I've got a bunch of P5/90s ready and waiting.


Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
trei@process.com
NODE d46a64a0Re: SSL challenge?
On Wed, 26 Jul 1995, Peter Trei wrote:

> Where does the effort to bruteforce SSL stand?

[an addition to Piete's follow-up]

We should be ready to get going very soon.  Clients and servers are 
working together and just need a little more testing to make sure they 
are better than perfect :-)

The protocol we're going to use is designed to be highly general and can 
be used to attempt a brute force attack on any crypto algorithm.  More on 
this later, but we've had a few thoughts...


- Andy

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NODE 9be6ea77Re: SSL challenge?
> Where does the effort to bruteforce SSL stand?

Andy has the spec wrapped up, and is finalising his Windows 32 Client.
I have the key doler running, a perl client and a shell driving script,
	along with a new WWW interface (which we hope won't be used much)
Adam has bruterc4 tweaked to interact with my perl client.
Andrew has a copy of bruterc4 and is making brutessl similar.

We're all ready to go, but I'm off for three weeks, and as Adam will be taking
over my stuff in my absence, it might take him a while to understand it and
make the few last minute tweaks ....