From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 15:46:09 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: World record in password checking
In-Reply-To: <9308182154.AA21533@snark.lehman.com>
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Perry Metzger, pmetzger@lehman.com, writes:

> You can do even better if you happen to have 2000 sparcstations which
> are idle for 16 hours a day. Myself, I wonder how many machines we
> would need for a net parallel DES crack.

I think this is Perry's way of telling us how Lehman Brothers (or
Shearson-Lehman, or American Can, or Primerica, or Kuhn-Loeb, etc.) is
_really_ making its money!

Put those unused CPU cycles to use!


-Tim May


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