From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 06:38:32 +0800
To: Mark Cooke <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Distributed Key Breaking
Message-ID: <199604151814.LAA02463@netcom9.netcom.com>
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At  3:18 PM 4/15/96 +0100, Mark Cooke wrote:
>Just as a quick thought - given the prevelance of Web Browsers - has 
>anyone considered writing a Java Applet that would could run key space 
>searches and factoring in an easily distributed manner.
>
>This would seem to be a 'reasonable' way to gain access to more CPU power 
>- even though the Java code would not be as efficient as a native app. 
>Perhaps as a supplement to the more 'traditional' methods that have been 
>used in the past.

This approach will become even more "reasonable" as just-in-time
compilation and native code Bignum packages get distributed.

Regards - Bill


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