1993-08-19 - Re: World record in password checking

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From: bbyer@BIX.com
To: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1993-08-19 02:20:43 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 19:20:43 PDT

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From: bbyer@BIX.com
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 19:20:43 PDT
To: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: World record in password checking
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>Perhaps because internal communication between those 1024 machines will be
>significantly more difficult than running on a machine that is optimized
>for parallel operations, RPC just doesn't cut it.  You would probably lose
>a number of your hosts off the top just to coordinate the activity of the
>remaining machines.

They do not necessarily have to be co-ordinated (or interconnected at
all).  You could easily give each one a range of combinations to try, and
wait until one succeeds.

Ben Byer <bbyer@bix.com>

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