17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Mike Duvos writes:
Matt Blaze <mab@research.att.com> 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... Perry