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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Presents a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) based system for cracking the RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) encryption algorithm. The system achieves an outstanding price/performance ratio, easily beating other low-cost approaches, such as commodity PCs. The system was implemented using a single Altera EPF10K20 CPLD on an Altera UP1 Education Board. This CPLD is large enough to contain the control unit and five functional units. Measured performance on our prototype shows that we can crack a 32-bit RC4 in an expected time of 15 hours (30 hours worst case). This gives a theoretical expected time of 159 days to crack 40-bit keys-the maximum possible key length that can exported from Canada and the USA. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of programmable logic (CPLD or FPGA) against even a cryptosystem designed for software implementation.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it