Tool

DES Cracker

tool:des_cracker Also: Deep Crack

Hardware tool created by the EFF to demonstrate that DES could be broken cheaply and quickly.

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Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing DEVELOPED_BY Electronic Frontier Foundation Explicit 12
outgoing AFFECTS DES Explicit 12
incoming SAME_AS Deep Crack Explicit 12

Claims

DES Cracker DEVELOPED_BY Electronic Frontier Foundation

The EFF created the DES Cracker to demonstrate that DES was not sufficiently secure.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Cindy Cohn EP 12 Details

“EFF created a tool called the DES Cracker.”

Cindy Cohn · offsets 20268–20310

DES Cracker AFFECTS DES

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

Explicit Confidence 99% · Cindy Cohn EP 12 Details

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

Cindy Cohn · offsets 20331–20400

Deep Crack SAME_AS DES Cracker

Jack says the EFF called the DES-cracking tool Deep Crack.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 12 Details

“The EFF called this tool Deep Crack”