Re: Netsacpe's Offical Response

In this case he had to use roughly $10,000 worth of computing power (ballpark figure for having access to 120 workstations and a few parallel supecomputers for 8 days) to break a single message.

Hmm, I don't know about anyone else around here, but my workstation is idle 99% of the time. I could almost certainly get access to all the spare CPU cycles on 120 workstations for free, and I suspect that a lot of people (particularly hackers) could do so as well. There's no need to spend $ 10,000 on renting them. Mark