Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:50:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> To: taob@risc.org Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703010450.XAA01812@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970228231917.7982E-100000@alpha.risc.org> from Brian Tao at "Feb 28, 97 11:34:40 pm"
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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.
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