[Cryptography] GPU Farm

[xgermx]

Many people are curious about the 40GB Fin Fisher dump, which is mostly
comprised of GPG encrypted files.
Could be an interesting application of raw compute power.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/2cjlop/gamma_international_leaked/

xgermx


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:26:49 +0200
> From: Marco Streng <marco.streng at genesis-mining.com>
> To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
> Subject: [Cryptography] GPU Farm
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> Hello Guys from metzdowd,
>
> I really like your mailing list and following it longer time now.
> Since I think the posts there are really of high quality and the
> people participating really know what they are talking about I would
> love to ask a specific question that could be really interesting for
> everyone there.
>
> I come from a company that is doing cryptocurrency mining in large
> scale and currently we are thinking about a use case for our 1300 high
> end GPU farm that is not necessarily profit oriented, but most
> importantly interesting and exciting. I asked a lot of people till now
> and also people from chaos computer club in germany, where I received
> especially ideas pointing to using the farm to decrypt emails or other
> decryption services. Also I was suggested to use it to decrypt the
> NSA_KEY, but that is obviously not doable in human time even if the
> farm would be 1000x bigger.
> Do you have any interesting idea what to do with the farm? If we like
> the project it we wouldn't hesitate to start directly!
>
> I would really appreciate if you could ask this to the mailing list
> and I am really excited about the answers. What do you think?
>
> Greetings,
> Marco
>
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