I've got a friend in California that has access to some pretty damn fast SGI's. I know they are mainly graphics workstations, but they are blazing fast and have a large price tag to boot (>$20,000 IIRC). Maybe I could get it to run on his, but that would be assuming it was 56 bit, and I think it's a 512 bit key, not that I know anything about cryptology. He does a lot of movie animations for ILM, and is a cool guy.
Mark E. Scott Jr.
mscott@databasecity.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Cassady Roop [mailto:croop@oregontrail.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 11:00 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: RE: rom checksum
Yeah, I just happen to have two Cray towers and a cryocloset next to my
dresser in my room. :)
I don't think many people on this list are going to have access to
supercomputers... And if anyone does, its probably for a University, in
which case if they could get access it would be short-term, and you're
probably looking at weeks to months... Its probably not gonna happen.
> Hrm... does anybody here have access to a supercomputer? Like a
> university one, or something? I think 56-bit RSA (The maximum legal
> exportable, i believe) can be broken in a few days with some of the more
> powerfull computers. Although it might take a few weeks to factor that
> number, it would be a whole lot cheaper than paying for signatures :)