From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 28 20:51:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09609 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:51:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from r74h25.res.gatech.edu (ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu [128.61.74.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09604 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by r74h25.res.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA01812; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:50:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199703010450.XAA01812@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge In-Reply-To: from Brian Tao at "Feb 28, 97 11:34:40 pm" To: taob@risc.org Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:50:36 -0500 (EST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao wrote.. > Yes, it seems to scale quite linearly with the number of CPU's. > csm@sgi.com is running an SGI Origin2000 with 128 CPU's and 2GB of > RAM. He's benchmarked it at over 20 million keys/sec, but he can't > dedicate the whole machine to it (luckily for the rest of us ;-)). Wow. That's pretty big. :) > Well... I guess I'll make this an open invite: anyone not already > affiliated with a team is more than welcome to join our little > grassroots effort at rsacrack@vex.net (http://www.vex.net/~rasmus/rsa/). > We've got everything from PPro200's down to a wee Sun 3/60 that takes > almost 2 days to complete a single keyblock, and we don't favour one > particular OS over another. :) Just signed up both of my CPUs...I may try enlisting some machines from work as well. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.