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Who built the EFF DES Cracker?

April 26, 2017built cracker DES EFF

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Who built the EFF DES Cracker?

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation organized and funded the project to build the EFF DES Cracker. Paul Kocher of Cryptography Research ( http://www.cryptography.com ) led the architecture and software team, which also included John Gilmore of EFF. The hardware was designed and built by Advanced Wireless Technologies ( http://www.awti.com ), with assistance from Mike Cheponis of California Wireless ( http://www.wireless.com ) and Mitch Bradley and Mark Insley of FirmWorks ( http://www.firmworks.com ). The software uses the very fast DES library “libdes-4.01”, created by Eric Young ( http://www.cryptsoft.com/~eay/ ). John Gilmore provided overall project management and edited a book, Cracking DES, published by O’Reilly and Associates. Bruce Schneier ( http://www.counterpane.com ) provided test problems for the machine. Clif Cox provided the remote communications infrastructure. Levi Kruger designed the project’s “crumbling stone letters” logo. Lee Tien ( mailto:tien@well.com ) and John L