1993-08-19 - World record in password checking

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Message Hash: c7cb378c855f48e10a38463ff8a99b22037c98f2ab5bfe7d72cd2d7ebce5b812
Message ID: <9308190129.AA26882@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
Reply To: <9308182154.AA21533@snark.lehman.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-08-19 01:30:43 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 18:30:43 PDT

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From: Eric Blossom <eb@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 18:30:43 PDT
To: pmetzger@lehman.com
Subject: World record in password checking
In-Reply-To: <9308182154.AA21533@snark.lehman.com>
Message-ID: <9308190129.AA26882@srlr14.sr.hp.com>
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> 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've got ~1500 workstations...
Most are idle at night... 

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