Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:42:29 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: taob@risc.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge Message-ID: <199703021942.OAA10009@crh.cl.msu.edu> References: <5fcjhv$b72$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In lists.freebsd.chat you write:
>On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
>>
>> hmm....5x86-133 uses 5 minutes to do 20Mkeys. a factor of 300
>> faster....there are faster machines out there yet. remember the
>> 6000(?) cpu intel box that the gov't bought.
> You mean the Paragon? Massively-parallel computing would be
>ideally suited for this type of job. Each CPU grabs a chunk of the
>keyspace and then works on it totally independently of all the others.
>If you have a 4096-node system, with each CPU only capable of 100,000
>keys/sec, you still end up with 400 million keys/sec. That would be a
>match for the world-wide effort under way with the genx.net server.
No, he's talking about the Sandia National labs 9000+ PPRO 200 system for
simulating nuclear detonations. 9000*350K/sec is 3150 MKeys/sec, they could
break this in no time :)
-Crh
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