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> So it's entirely feasible if you have access to any cloud vendor then. At around $0.50 per hour, and assuming "many many years" means 10 years, then the atta
by Uberphallus 5y ago
> So it's entirely feasible if you have access to any cloud vendor then.
At around $0.50 per hour, and assuming "many many years" means 10 years, then the attack needs to be worth those $43800.
- m_eiman 5y agoMany many means 512 in the article. But that's with lots of room for optimizations.
- fragmede 5y agoThat's... less than I expected? Certainly more expensive that a normal person could afford, but with the levels of income disparity in the US, that's frighteningly affordable for a large corporation and within reach for highly motivated rich individual. If you own a cloud (aka Amazon wants to break into your VPN), they get major discounts on time on their fleet. If, instead, it costs $0.01/hr due to using unused capacity during quiet times of day, that's works out to be like $1000 to crack it. As to what makes it worth it. $50k is too expensive to attack all users of this particular VPN software, but there's way more than $50k worth of information companies want to keep secret (call it competitive intelligence) being protected by VPN software the world over.