I'd like to see a very general hardware processing power equivalence table. For example, 1 MasPar equals how many Pentiums. This would be extremely useful in figuring out a range of the types of boxes required to do this. Joel At 09:51 AM 7/23/96 +0100, Andy Brown wrote:

But first, a little reality check is in order. According to libdes, the 200Mhz Pentium Pro on my desk will do 1,827,997 ECB bytes/sec, or 228,499 ECB blocks. A DES crack would have to try, on average, 2^55 blocks. That would take my machine 43,798,875 hours, or 1,824,953 days.

OK, so let's be reasonable and say that a week would be a good time to come up with a DES key. We would need 260,707 200Mhz Pentium Pro's to achieve this.