Computer Science Project
This project was completed in the final year of a Double Honours B, Sc. in
Computer Science and Experimental Physics. Entitled:
"Attacking the Data Encryption Standard (DES) using the Birthday
Paradox",
it describes how DES was cracked using a key collision attack in
Java.
I presented a paper on the project at the PPPJ 2003 conference in
Kilkenny. The Powerpoint presentation which summarizes the project
may be downloaded here.
(146 kB)
The paper itself can be downloaded in PDF format.
If Adobe Acrobat is
installed on your computer it should open automatically:
John Loughran, Tom Dowling (78 kB)
Alternately the full text of the project, including appendices and
references, presented as a zipped collection of MS Word and Excel
documents may be downloaded here.
(423 kB)
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