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Date:      Sun, 2 Mar 1997 10:02:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, taob@risc.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge
Message-ID:  <199703021802.KAA23478@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970302090357.18611D-100000@harlie.bfd.com> from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at Mar 2, 97 09:05:24 am

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Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > What's the total keys/sec rating right now?  I wonder if even
> > certain government agencies have key breaking machines capable
> > of reaching these kinds of performance figures? :-)
> 
> Someone who can't participate benchmarked their massively parallel machine
> at 20Mkeys/sec, all by itself.
> 
> 

	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.

	not that it would be used to break keys.
jmb



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