---------- From: Remo Pini[SMTP:rp@rpini.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 1996 7:34 AM To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Distributed DES crack -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Wed Jul 24 16:31:44 1996 Has anyone thought about TI or Motorolas DSP-Eval-Boards (at 99$ a piece at 40 MHz with optimized assembler they might easily outrun a PPro200) Don't look at me that way, I know only little about DSP-Programming.

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DSP's are optimized for add/multiply ... and you get their memory-access pipelining; but I am not too sure how they'd do on a DES algo. I wouldn't get too excited.