From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 28 20:53:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09742 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09733 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:53:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13796; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:54:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703010454.UAA13796@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" cc: taob@risc.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Feb 1997 23:50:36 EST." <199703010450.XAA01812@r74h25.res.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:54:06 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Don't forget to add your entry to the web page 8) http://www.vex.net/~rasmus/rsa/ Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of "Kenneth D. Merry" : > 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.