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40-bit brute force RC4 speed records?

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NODE 7ec8ca9040-bit brute force RC4 speed records? Dan McDonald <danmcd@Eng.Sun.COM>Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:39:09 +0800

Just curious, what's the speed record?  What if I had, oh, say, a 4-way Ultra
Enterprise 450 at my disposal?

Thanks,
Dan

NODE 5a7851e9Re: 40-bit brute force RC4 speed records? Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:06:18 +0800

> Just curious, what's the speed record?  What if I had, oh, say, a 4-way Ultra
> Enterprise 450 at my disposal?

A Maspar: 1.5M keys/sec 

see:

	http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/ssl/

Adam