On Nov 3, 2009, at 6:48 PM, sascha wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:12:00PM +0100, Karsten Nohl wrote:
>> We use a mix of these two techniques but stay closer to the
>> distinguished points scenario.
>> Parameters for the tables being computed at the moment are:
>> M = 64  (A5/1)
>> D = 38  (4 TB)
>> C = 6  (50% success rate)
>> => T = 33.5 (2 minutes on a computer with GTX260 that has all tables;
>> less when the distributed cracking network is used)
>>
> This number is not correct. For a lookup of a single value, you have  
> to compute
> (1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 32) * 2^15 A5/1 rounds, which is 528 * 2^15 =  
> 17.3 million
> To do the lookup in all 400 tables, you need 7 billion rounds.
> 7 billion links can be computed in 42 seconds on a GTX260, and you
> have to do this for 204 keystream samples, totaling 8500 seconds on
> a single node with all the tables and 21 seconds with 400 nodes  
> sharing
> the computation.

that's correct -- my bad. I was using the formula for pure  
distinguished points tables.
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