AndersonAttack@home

[Gilthanis]

http://parlea.ru/andersonattack/

The purpose of the project is to implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher. The attack's idea was described in the early 90's in a mailing group. As we know, it was never implemented in practice before. Anderson's attack belongs to a class of brute-force attacks, so given enough time it extracts a secret key with 100% probability, in contrast to the most popular rainbow tables attack on A5/1, that have success probability around 90%.

Team page - http://parlea.ru/andersonattack/team_display.php?teamid=21

I have already added the project to the all inclusive DC project list. It is currently only nVidia capable.

 

[mmonnin]

No Units but interesting to see 2 GPU projects. Never heard of either. Although I'm not sure I'd want to help a Russian Cryptanalysis project.