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Re: IP: NSA RESPONSE TO KEY LENGTH REPORT
Perry comments:
> Mike Duvos writes:
> > Matt Blaze <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Finally, the NSA report offers estimates of the time
> > > required to perform exhaustive search using a Cray model T3D
> > > supercomputer. This is a curious choice, for as our report
> > > notes, general-purpose supercomputers of this type make poor
> > > (and uneconomical) key search engines.
> >
> > A tiny nit to pick here. The Cray T3D and T3E computers are
> > massively parallel machines consisting of DEC Alpha chips hooked
> > up in a 3D Torus configuration. They would probably make pretty
> > decent key search engines,
>
> Not compared to programmable logic devices, they wouldn't...
>
> And that is, after all, the point...
My point was that the T3D is not a "general-purpose supercomputer."
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