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Tim Dierks (tim@dierks.org)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:48:33 -0700
At 9:58 AM -0400 6/19/98, Trei, Peter wrote:
> Check your numbers. The distributed.net site has
> extensive statistics. The current estimated rate
> if they switched over to DES is around 66 Gk/sec,
> which is about 165 times the rate of your
> hypothetical chip.
Two errors here; first, mine: when doing the math, I dropped three orders
of magnitude here. The other, someone else's: I used the value at
<http://www.distributed.net/des/nugget.txt> for the key rate, which gives
the peak rate of 34,430,460,000 keys per second, or about half of your
number.
> Wiener has publised an update to his paper, utilizing
> Moore's Law to speed up his chips by a factor of 4.
Is this paper available on the net?
- Tim
Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org
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know about people who are highly skilled with computers, they should be easy
to beat up." - Ernest Cey, quoted in The Onion, <http://www.theonion.com>
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:44 ADT