Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-governmental organization dedication to the defense of free speech, protection of privacy and consumer rights for internet users. EFF was established in 1990 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The organization has been involved in a number of legal cases, and in a lot of ways they're essentially the online equivalent to the American Civil Liberties Union and relatives.

[edit] Deep Crack

In 1998 they published a book, Cracking DES[1], in which they not only laid out a case for the United States Data Encryption Standard for not being secure, but came to the conclusion that the NSA was very likely on its third or fourth generation of DES cracking devices at the time. In order to do this, they created their own DES cracker machine[2]; the bulk of the book's text is the VHDL code used to generate the code-cracking chips that did the actual work, and it's not only recommended reading for cryppies, but also for anyone interested in computer hardware design.

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