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| insecure | Oct 11 2005, 07:31 PM |
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The numbers look about right to me, Donald. It's interesting how people choose analogies to represent big numbers. You seem to favour the "it'll take ages" approach, but I've always liked the "how big a lump would it make?" approach myself. When the decrypting cluster is thousands of light-years across, it conjures up a wonderful picture. Such a cluster, even if it could exist in the first place, would have to be very carefully designed if it were to work - even the task of dividing up the keyspace between the machines would have to be very delicately planned. |
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But heck, I'm going to post my numbers anyway.
10:46 PM Nov 27
