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[Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>]

On Jul 27, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> During the RSA contest, the peak key rate for the RC5 64bit attack was
> 270,147,024 kkeys/second.  At that pace, it would have taken 770 days. 
>  To
> equate that key rate to common computer power, it would take 32,504 
> 800 Mhz
> Apple Powerbook g4 laptops or 45,998 AMD Athlon XP machines running at 
> 2ghz
> to sustain that rate.  Based on the Athlon processor, that is 
> approximately
> 211,820,790 mips or 106,225,380 mflops (106.23 Tflops) of power.
>
> The fastest supercomputer in the world is the Earth Simulator.  It is 
> rated
> at 35.86 TFlops.  Even with that enormous capability, that is only 1/3 
> the
> speed required to crack RC5 64bit in 770 days.

Of course, there is always the backdoor hack. You know about the 
backdoor, right Brain? THEY built it into everything...

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Pinky