RSA's DES Challenge III is solved in record time
Coming in at 22 hours 15 minutes, the DES Challenge III was solved by the Electronic Frontier Foundation´s `Deep Crack´ in a combined effort with distributed.net.
The contest data was as follows:
Identifier: DES-Challenge-III
Cipher: DES
Start: January 18, 1999 9:00 AM PST
Prize: $10,000
IV: da 4b be f1 6b 6e 98 3d
Plaintext: See you in Rome (second AES Conference, March 22-23, 1999)
Ciphertext:
bd 0d de 91 99 60 b8 8a 47 9c b1 5c 23 7b 81 18 99 05
45 bc de 82 01 ab 53 4d 6f 1c b4 30 63 3c ee cd 96 2e
07 c6 e6 95 99 9c 96 46 5a 95 70 02 02 70 98 bd 41 c2
88 a9 f0 2f 8b e5 48 20 d2 a8 a0 6b bf 93 de 89 f6 e2
52 fd 8a 25 eb d0 7d 96 83 ee a4 2d c8 8d 1b 71
