From: Harry Tuttle Remailer <h_tuttle@rigel.cyberpass.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:33:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd)
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On Sun, Jul 27, 1997 at 11:46:00PM -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
> Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd)
> 
> Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> > 2. Their cracker changes the state of 2^128 bits in 33 minutes.  This is
> >    being extremely generous;
> 
> >                          (Actually, for all I know, terawatt power sources
> >    may exist; that's out of my field.  Please let me know if this is the case.
> 
> 
> Not within a few million miles of here, and they'd be hard to conceal.
> 
> A few GW is fairly easy, by several methods.

Terawatts for a few microseconds is fairly standard technology, I 
believe.  Femtosecond laser pulses driven by *very* large capacitor 
banks... 

> Terrestrial fusion is not a serious contender yet, and I doubt
> it will be for a long time.

It's easy to generate lots of power through fusion.  The problem is 
confinement.