From: "Rev. Mark Grant" <mark@unicorn.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 09:44:51 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netsacpe's Offical Response
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>      In this case he had to use roughly
>      $10,000 worth of computing power (ballpark figure for having access to
>      120 workstations and a few parallel supecomputers for 8 days) to break
>      a single message.

Hmm, I don't know about anyone else around here, but my workstation is
idle 99% of the time. I could almost certainly get access to all the spare
CPU cycles on 120 workstations for free, and I suspect that a lot of
people (particularly hackers) could do so as well. There's no need to
spend $ 10,000 on renting them. 

	Mark