Re: Feds have lost battle against encryption

Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> writes:

Somebody really needs to say the words "distributed computing" to Congress. Perhaps that will be the major benefit of the DES Challenge project when (not if) it succeeds.

I don't think the issue with china is key cracking. The Chinese supposedly used the supercomputers for weapons design and simulation, which require significanly finer grained parallelism (and hence lower-latency communication) than key cracking.