CVS use by DES Cracker

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's DES Cracker is a project to investigate the strength of the DES encryption standard which is widely used to protect unclassified computer data and communications.

John Gilmore says:

I used CVS to maintain the DES Cracker software. It was effortless to keep the versions on three machines (my home machine, the DES Cracker Linux controller, and my laptop) consistent and organized, despite two of them being connected almost exclusively by Metricom radio links.

For More Information

As part of this project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and O'Reilly have published a book, Cracking DES. The book reveals full technical details on how researchers and data-recovery engineers can build a working DES Cracker like the one that won the RSA Challenge.

DES Cracker page from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.