Hackers trivia

June 20, 2024

This week in 1997, a group of hackers cracked code written in Data Encryption Standard, which was designed to be impenetrable. Oops. How long did it take the hackers to crack? Was it … A.) Five days, B.) Five weeks, C.) Five months or D.) Five years?

C.) Five months. A group of hackers organized online to crack what was, at that point, the strongest legally exportable encryption software in the United States.