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Re: The secret message is...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dimitris Tsapakidis)
Thu Feb 26 10:47:49 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:04:27 +0000
From: Dimitris Tsapakidis <dimitris@alien.bt.co.uk>
To: Marcus Leech <Marcus.Leech.mleech@nt.com>
CC: cryptography@c2.net
> Our internal network has O(10**5) addressable objects on it, many of which
> are computing systems. If I had such a problem to solve, I'd simply
> arrange for the correct software to get installed, over time, on all
> of these systems, and let them soak up idle time computing "interesting"
> problems. That doesn't require that I go out and buy any dedicated hardware.
>
> Most computing nodes on our network are desktop machines that are idle
> 67% of the time...
We got ~600 out of our ~40,000 desktops cracking Certicom's
ECCp-97. Join us if you want at
http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/security/crackers/p97/
At RC5-56 we had ~250 machines doing 60Mkeys/sec, nowadays
we can probably do >150Mkeys/sec.
Dimitris
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Dimitris Tsapakidis http://www.rabbit.co.uk/dimitris/
dimitris@alien.bt.co.uk Security Research, BT Labs, Ipswich, UK
