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Hi
On Friday 14 November 2014 at 3:01:59 PM, in
mid:54661967.30...@nordnet.fr, Philip Jackson wrote:
Does
he have to pause between each iteration to see if he
has 'something good' ?
Could, presumably, stop after several iterations to check
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Johan Wevers joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote:
On 14-11-2014 3:15, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
10**38 attempts at 10**6 bitflips per attempt equals 10**44 bitflips
total. At carpet-scuffing power, that's about 10**15 joules of energy,
[...]
But to make our
On 14/11/14 03:36, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
Whoops!
so 10**30 years. The universe is about 10 billion years old, or
10**13 years, so ... our brute-force key cracker takes 10**17 times
longer than the age of the universe in order to brute-force a 128-bit
key.
10 billion is 10**10, so it
Thanks for that (and the previous) It makes the brain hurt but
raises a few questions in my mind.
The real purpose of a Fermi estimate isn't to give you solid answers:
it's to give you an appreciation of the problem. If it does that, it's
done its job.
(Also, a listmember named Ineiev
On 14-11-2014 16:01, Philip Jackson wrote:
Does anything prevent the key breaker getting lucky and cracking it first try?
No. It's just extremely unlikely.
It seems to me that all discussions on key breaking with their very large
numbers always assume that the last try is THE ONE.
Nu,
A while ago Hauke asked if the statement in the FAQ about a brute-forcer
leaving the Earth uninhabitable was correct. I said it was, but I
didn't break out the math. Now that I have a few minutes to breathe,
here's the full answer. It's a Fermi estimate, which means it's not
going to be
Whoops!
so 10**30 years. The universe is about 10 billion years old, or
10**13 years, so ... our brute-force key cracker takes 10**17 times
longer than the age of the universe in order to brute-force a 128-bit
key.
10 billion is 10**10, so it takes 10**20 times the age of the universe.
But
