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contact: rob at donotsell.net
Saturday, September 28, 2002
distributed.net completes rc5-64 project
- "The rc5-64 project has been going forever it seems to me (in reality it was 1,757 days) and I have been involved on and off with it (probably 150 of those days max). For those of you worried about the security of your 64 bit encryption they noted that the..." [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
The article goes on to say "Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s. " While it wasn't a Mac that found the key, if I was going into the encryption cracking business today on a limited budget, based on these numbers, I'd choose a Mac G4.
11:49:34 AM
- "The rc5-64 project has been going forever it seems to me (in reality it was 1,757 days) and I have been involved on and off with it (probably 150 of those days max). For those of you worried about the security of your 64 bit encryption they noted that the..." [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes]
The article goes on to say "Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s. " While it wasn't a Mac that found the key, if I was going into the encryption cracking business today on a limited budget, based on these numbers, I'd choose a Mac G4.
11:49:34 AM