On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:38:54 -0400, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just did a little research (very little actually). The current fastest > supercomputer is made by IBM and just beat out NEC at 36.1 Tera-FLOPS (trillion > floating point opreations per second).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] does twice that number. for free. > Next year they will be delivering one with almost 10 times that power. good for them > Even a little 1 cabinet Cray XD1 does 5 G-FLOPS > (billion flops) and will only set you back $100K or so. ... and just imagine a beowulf cluster of those <G> > Tell me again how secure your cipher is from brut force decryption (grin). Next > year's IBM should be able to do that 2048 bit jobby in one year all by its lonesome. it's as secure as it gets. just use 4096 bit keys for the next year. as simple as that. mishka
