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1996-07-26 - Re: IP: NSA RESPONSE TO KEY LENGTH REPORT

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Message Hash: 142d2048644b15068543fa8061455511992326e9b4f64adb0a9303687fe65655
Message ID: <199607261814.OAA23478@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199607261753.KAA12891@netcom13.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-26 22:46:51 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 06:46:51 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 06:46:51 +0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Subject: Re: IP: NSA RESPONSE TO KEY LENGTH REPORT
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Mike Duvos writes:
> > > A tiny nit to pick here.  The Cray T3D and T3E computers are
> > > massively parallel machines consisting of DEC Alpha chips hooked
> > > up in a 3D Torus configuration.  They would probably make pretty
> > > decent key search engines,
> > 
> > Not compared to programmable logic devices, they wouldn't...
> > 
> > And that is, after all, the point...
> 
> My point was that the T3D is not a "general-purpose supercomputer."

Well, thats moot -- it isn't a special purpose keysearch machine, and
thats whats really needed. Alpha's don't cut it...

Perry

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