Re: World record in password checking

[bbyer@BIX.com]

>Perhaps because internal communication between those 1024 machines will be
>significantly more difficult than running on a machine that is optimized
>for parallel operations, RPC just doesn't cut it.  You would probably lose
>a number of your hosts off the top just to coordinate the activity of the
>remaining machines.

They do not necessarily have to be co-ordinated (or interconnected at
all).  You could easily give each one a range of combinations to try, and
wait until one succeeds.

Ben Byer <bbyer@bix.com>