IP: NSA RESPONSE TO KEY LENGTH REPORT
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Fri Jul 26 15:51:08 PDT 1996
Mike Duvos writes:
> Matt Blaze <mab at research.att.com> writes:
> > Finally, the NSA report offers estimates of the time
> > required to perform exhaustive search using a Cray model T3D
> > supercomputer. This is a curious choice, for as our report
> > notes, general-purpose supercomputers of this type make poor
> > (and uneconomical) key search engines.
>
> A tiny nit to pick here. The Cray T3D and T3E computers are
> massively parallel machines consisting of DEC Alpha chips hooked
> up in a 3D Torus configuration. They would probably make pretty
> decent key search engines,
Not compared to programmable logic devices, they wouldn't...
And that is, after all, the point...
Perry
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