Re "NSA rescued DES from differential cryptography": I coined the name Deep Crack for the EFF machine that brute-forced DES in 56 hours on a $250K budget. Oste

Re "NSA rescued DES from differential cryptography": I coined the name Deep Crack for the EFF machine that brute-forced DES in 56 hours on a $250K budget. Ostensibly a play on Deep Blue and Deep Thought. The official hidden message, per my email in 1998: there's a Deep Crack in the government's export control policies. Unofficial hidden message: they strengthened DES against every attack except the one their budget could afford. Not responsible for allusions to the Liberty Bell, Marion Barry's favorite nose candy, Mark Felt's alias, Linda Lovelace's famous movie, or Douglas Adams's computer that answered forty-two. Responsible for the observation that when someone says NSA "rescued" a standard, it's worth asking what crack they left in it for themselves. The first key's free! Deep Crack origin story (Denise Caruso + Gilmore + Hopkins, 1998): https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/humor/deep-crack.txt https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/humor/deep-crack.txt EFF DES cracker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker Deep Crack Chip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker#/media/File:Chip300.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker#/media/File:Ch... EFF's Cracking DES Page: https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/ https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/ Sun DES chip socket (export control) and boot ROM easter egg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125377 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125377