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I'd like to see a very general hardware processing power equivalence

At 03:40 PM 7/23/96 PDT, koontz@netapp.com (Dave Koontz) wrote: table.

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For example, 1 MasPar equals how many Pentiums.

One MasPar MP2 (4K processors) could run 300,000 crypt(3) crack attempts per second (a password checker). That should give you 6 or 7 million brute force key attempts per second.

Interesting - thanks for the result. Do you know how tightly tuned the crack implementation was (e.g. straight C with MasPar optimizer, hand-tuned assembler, etc.)? Since the MasPar has a large number of very small processors, I'd expect it to be better at bit-twiddling than conventional processors. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Confuse Authority!