RE: Distributed DES crack

[Joel McNamara <joelm@eskimo.com>]

I'd like to see a very general hardware processing power equivalence table.
For example, 1 MasPar equals how many Pentiums.  This would be extremely
useful in figuring out a range of the types of boxes required to do this.

Joel

At 09:51 AM 7/23/96 +0100, Andy Brown wrote:

>But first, a little reality check is in order.  According to libdes,
>the 200Mhz Pentium Pro on my desk will do 1,827,997 ECB bytes/sec, or
>228,499 ECB blocks.  A DES crack would have to try, on average, 2^55
>blocks.  That would take my machine 43,798,875 hours, or 1,824,953 days.
>
>OK, so let's be reasonable and say that a week would be a good time to
>come up with a DES key.  We would need 260,707 200Mhz Pentium Pro's to
>achieve this.