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Interesting idea, I like the "as much certainty as you want" with the probability. Why can't this be parallelized? Sure you have to work on one key at a time b
by ColinDabritz 13y ago
Interesting idea, I like the "as much certainty as you want" with the probability.
Why can't this be parallelized? Sure you have to work on one key at a time because they are sequential, but 1000 machines can be cracking that one key. Every key cracked would be distributed and the cluster would start in on the next.
It's a little more complicated, but I'm not seeing how it's really any less parallelizeable.
- im3w1l 13y agoI think, but am not certain, that with such a small keyspace the IO cost would dominate if you tried to parallelize it. (Assuming each decryption attempt is rather quick).
- dsl 13y agoI/O is inexpensive for even non-state level actors. I have 40,000 spindles on a research cluster that is hardly used for anything...
- Game_Ender 13y agoYeah every body has $4 million in hard drives just sitting around. At 1TB each that is a 40 peta-byte array, that is still huge in this day an age.