From: koontz@netapp.com (Dave Koontz)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:19:08 +0800
To: joelm@eskimo.com
Subject: RE: Distributed DES crack
Message-ID: <9607232240.AA24989@supernova.netapp.com>
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>I'd like to see a very general hardware processing power equivalence table.
>For example, 1 MasPar equals how many Pentiums.

One MasPar MP2 (4K processors) could run 300,000 crypt(3) crack attempts
per second (a password checker).  That should give you 6 or 7 million 
brute force key attempts per second.

Unfortunately the only way to show an equivalance for a particular problem
is to have both machines work on the same problem.  (Perhaps we could manage
to break a DES key in the course of executing a new benchmark?)