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I saw somewhere that they were using custom built hardware modules to break AES keys, some kind of FPGA thing. It was cheap to build and extremely fast since it
by jokoon 10y ago
I saw somewhere that they were using custom built hardware modules to break AES keys, some kind of FPGA thing. It was cheap to build and extremely fast since it was specialized in doing just that.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoI've seen this hypothesis before. What I haven't seen is anything more concrete than "I heard about a guy who knows a guy who sold the pspice license that was used to..."
- jokoon 10y agoI could remember seeing some photo, cannot remember where.
- retox 10y agoI read that in the Dan Brown book, Digital Fortress.
- dancek 10y agoI don't know why this is downvoted. Might be the correct explanation to "I saw somewhere".
- willholloway 10y agoWe just have to look at the world of bitcoin mining to see that custom fabricated ASICs would wipe the floor with general purpose CPUs for this kind of task. Intel 3930k = 66.6 Mhash/s AntMiner S9 ASIC = 14,000,000 Mhash/s
- tromp 10y agoA single S9 uses 189 BM1387 chips to achieve that 14TH/s. So that's only 74074 Mh/s per ASIC. Granted, that's still wiping the floor...