On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:27:45 CST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Fact: If the paper and method are sound...the sky STILL is not falling > (although it will be raining pretty darned hard)...2^69 operations...to > get a collision...how many hours of current gen cpu cycles?? (some notes > from the blog thread postulate a 4 ghz machine would need 4000 > years...4000 CPU@ 4 ghz ea ...1 year.)
And if it's a crew with a 400K machine zombie net, 3 days. Maybe a week given that most of the boxes are consumer-grade machines. Consider it a "given" that there's at least one "somebody" *already* situated in that target space...
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