Re: Cost to Crack Keys

This is how you can crack SSL RC4-40 sessions for $1000 each: Go to your bank and get a $250,000 loan over 10 years. Assuming a 10% interest rate, you will have to pay about $40,000 per year. Use the $250,000 to buy 50 low-cost high-speed pentium PCs. Don't bother with a screen, keyboard or mouse. Get the minimum of memory. Get a huge discount (you're a really good client). Pay $10,000 for the electricity bill, the real-estate rent, etc. The machines will crack 50 keys per year on average. They cost you $50,000 per year. That's $1,000 per key. Does anyone see any hole in the above plan ? It seems to me that Netscape's estimate is one order of magnitude too high. -- Damien