Claim

DES Cracker AFFECTS DES

The DES Cracker was a hardware tool capable of breaking DES.

Episode
EP 12 — Crypto Wars
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Cindy Cohn
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“It was a hardware tool that basically, very cheaply, could break DES.”

Cindy Cohn · offsets 20331–20400

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T03:38:47.441932+00:00

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