NODE 4d92c82aRE: Distributed DES crack
koontz@netapp.com (Dave Koontz)Wed, 24 Jul 1996 20:19:08 +0800
>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?)