IP: NSA RESPONSE TO KEY LENGTH REPORT

[Perry E. Metzger]

Mike Duvos writes:
> > > 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...
> 
> My point was that the T3D is not a "general-purpose supercomputer."

Well, thats moot -- it isn't a special purpose keysearch machine, and
thats whats really needed. Alpha's don't cut it...

Perry