Re: Supercomputing and DES key cracking

From: mike3 (mike4ty4_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: 30 Dec 2003 13:23:38 -0800

unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote in message news:<bsgdfc$m59$1@string.physics.ubc.ca>...
> mike4ty4@yahoo.com (mike3) writes:
>
>
> ]Let's see. 1 Deep Crack + 100,000 or so PCs does DES crack in 22
> ]hours, how 'bout network of all the Government's most powerful
> ]supercomputing devices devoted full time in 100% secrecy? I bet with
> ]that they could have it done in only about 45 seconds.
>
> Deep crack is better. Building dedicated hardware will always be faster
> than using general machines. But yes, if you want to protect your
> message from NSA using DEs is not a good idea.

That's because they can use SUPERCOMPUTERS instead of PCs, right?