A mighty number falls

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 05:03:27AM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

> 11 months in 2007? How long will that take 18 months from now if we assume 
> pure microprocessor advance a la Moore's law? Is there also a slow but 

Moore's law is about integration density; I'm not sure brute-force
L1 code/data also doubles in 12-18 month range. With multicores,
it now probably does.

It would be interesting to see how systems requiring very large
precomputed lookup tables (GBytes and TBytes) for cryptoattack do here.

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