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{{short description|Book by Matt Curtin}}
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'''''Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard''''' (2005, Copernicus Books {{ISBN|0387271600}}) is a book by [[Matt Curtin]] about [[cryptography]].

In this book, Curtin recounts his involvement in the [[DESCHALL Project]], mobilizing thousands of personal computers in 1997 in order to meet the challenge to crack a single message [[encryption|encrypted]] with [[Data Encryption Standard|DES]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard |url=https://www.rsaconference.com/library/blog/brute-force-cracking-the-data-encryption-standard |access-date=January 20, 2024 |work=www.rsaconference.com}}</ref>

This was and remains one of the largest [[collaboration]]s of any kind on a single project in history.

The message was unencrypted on June 18 and was found to be "Strong cryptography makes the world a safer place."

This is also the message of Curtin's book where he uses a personal account to reveal to the uninitiated reader some insight into a topic of growing importance which is both technically and politically complicated.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.interhack.net/projects/deschall/ Archive of project material] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325222525/http://www.interhack.net/projects/deschall/ |date=2010-03-25 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110622124325/http://home.earthlink.net/~rcv007/deschall.htm Archive of DESCHALL home page]

[[Category:2005 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Cryptography books]]


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