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>Hmm.  2^56 possible keys, so on average, you'd need to try 2^55 keys.
>Say it takes 2^14 seconds (that's a little more than three hours, but
about right); then this board was doing 2^41 encryptions per second,
>or roughly 2 million per microsecond.

he didn't say it averaged 3 hours.  he said it took it 3 hour on a specific key.


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