At 9:58 AM -0700 9/11/00, Glenn Saunders wrote:
>[I wrote]
>> Up to 200 digits sounds right up our alley, but I guess it's the
>> supercomputer that stops us?
Actually, I take this back... The original quote was talking about
the product being up to 200 digits, right? In that case, we're like
88 over, if I counted correctly.
>If we knew a way to crack this with the right algorithm, and CPU speed
>was the problem, somebody should just write a SETI at-home sort of
>program and everybody interested enough in donating their idle
>computing power could help.
That's exactly what I was talking about, actually.
>This probably could have been done for the Battlesphere encryption
>too, right?
Isn't that essentially what they did? Only they did it all on site
with their own Jaguars...
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