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RE: Distributed DES crack
At 03:40 PM 7/23/96 PDT, [email protected] (Dave Koontz) wrote:
> > I'd like to see a very general hardware processing power equivalence
table.
> > For example, 1 MasPar equals how many Pentiums.
>
>One MasPar MP2 (4K processors) could run 300,000 crypt(3) crack attempts
>per second (a password checker). That should give you 6 or 7 million
>brute force key attempts per second.
Interesting - thanks for the result. Do you know how tightly tuned
the crack implementation was (e.g. straight C with MasPar optimizer,
hand-tuned assembler, etc.)? Since the MasPar has a large number of
very small processors, I'd expect it to be better at bit-twiddling
than conventional processors.
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