Re: DES-Busting Screen Savers?

At 15:53 7/23/96, Timothy C. May wrote:

Or several times that number of machines or time for machines with less crunch. Say, 100K Pentium-type machines for a month or two. How might this be gotten?

A while back I proposed one approach: a brute force "screen saver" for Windows machines. Other platforms, maybe, but the most cost-effective thing to do is to go after the Windows market only.

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