Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:40:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cluster Computing in BSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970516003914.15211E-100000@zen.cypher.net> In-Reply-To: <199705160426.VAA26703@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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the current RC5 distributed cracking effort shows quite clearly that something as advanced as MOSIX is not required. if his logic is that bad guys will use MOSIX to crack encryption brute force then he is fooling himself. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 1997 00:20:58 -0400 (EDT) > Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> wrote: > > > yes, since the bad guys are all too stupid to hack it to allow unlimited > > CPUs. guess again, please. > > Then perhaps you can suggest a motive for limiting it to 6 nodes. I guess > you can hack MO6 to remove the limitation too, yes? > > The last time I spoke with Dr. BARAK about this, an NDA was required > to get the information necessary to remove the limit, and his reasons > for it were fairly clear. > > Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov > NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 > NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 > Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939 >
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