NSA leak (fwd)
Harry Tuttle Remailer
h_tuttle at rigel.cyberpass.net
Mon Jul 28 02:33:16 PDT 1997
On Sun, Jul 27, 1997 at 11:46:00PM -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
> Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd)
>
> Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > 2. Their cracker changes the state of 2^128 bits in 33 minutes. This is
> > being extremely generous;
>
> > (Actually, for all I know, terawatt power sources
> > may exist; that's out of my field. Please let me know if this is the case.
>
>
> Not within a few million miles of here, and they'd be hard to conceal.
>
> A few GW is fairly easy, by several methods.
Terawatts for a few microseconds is fairly standard technology, I
believe. Femtosecond laser pulses driven by *very* large capacitor
banks...
> Terrestrial fusion is not a serious contender yet, and I doubt
> it will be for a long time.
It's easy to generate lots of power through fusion. The problem is
confinement.
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