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 <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Marco Streng <[email protected]> > ----- > > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:26:49 +0200 > From: Marco Streng <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Cryptography] GPU Farm > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 > Thunderbird/24.6.0 > > 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 > > -- > Marco Streng > www.genesis-mining.com > CEO & Co Founder > +491602482228 > > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
