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[ArMaGeDdOn]

wow!  cool!  if that were too happen, that'd be great!

[ArMaGeDdOn]

nakor, i said 32 seconds using 7700 super computers together.  yes, that WOULD be possible that way.

[ArMaGeDdOn]

i meant 7700 12 to 15ghz pc's.

[NeuroKnight]

The PS2 CPU is not a very powerful CPU especially in this day and age.

You could stick a lot of them together to simulate a faster CPU but this doesn’t really work well. I mean how many 486 CPU's would one have to wire together to equal a Pentium, and even then you would only have combined speed. At some point the CPU's would be placed to far apart to be of any use to one another. Special software would have to be written to take advantage of the multi processors and in my cases it still would only be able to use 1 or 2 of them at one time.

An example is if I and a friend are running from point a to point b and I run 10 miles an hour and he runs 10 miles an hour that doesn’t mean together we can run 20 miles an hour from point a to point b, though with the right instructions I could run from a to b and he could run from point a to z.

The thing was that the PS2 were placed on embargo to countries that were not allowed anything faster than a 486 CPU because the PS2 could have been modified to run normal software at faster than 486 speeds they were not allowed to these unfriendly countries. (I think it was 486 it may have been a little faster or a little slower)

The point is the more slow processors one uses to get faster speeds the further away one gets from a supper computer.

[snakejoe]

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The RC5-64 project was able to brute force a key in 1757 days using 58,747,597,657 work units tested the winning key was found! They completed 86,950,894 workunits on the best day. This is 0.12% of the total keyspace meaning that at the peak rate they could expect to exhaust the keyspace in 790 days. The peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s. Over the course of the RC5-64 project, 331,252 individuals participated. They tested a toal of 15,769,938,165,961,326,592 keys. So the real question is did MS make the key length long enough? Given the example of approx 5 years, seems like it's close.

[snakejoe]

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The total calendar time for factoring RSA-155 was 5.2 months (March 17 - August 22) excluding polynomial selection time.  If one includes polynomial selection, the total elapsed time was 7.4 months, whereas RSA-140 took about 9 weeks of elapsed time. It must be noted that polynomial selection could be greatly reduced in elapsed time by using more machines. Neither effort devoted many machines to this task.

But for 2048bit. It would take about 2^512 times.

[ArMaGeDdOn]

ps2 is not a x86 chip.  it has a design which allows it to be modified to work as a near 12ghz x86 type processor.  get that through your head.  also, the PS3 will have a cpu 100x more powerful than a p4 2.53ghz.  once we have that............wow.

[ArMaGeDdOn]

because i'm sure it takes some complicated changes.  like i said, they were notified about it by nasa, and they changed the design a bit, but i read it's still possible to do it.  people here arleady have trouble with their solder-less mods.  i'm sure it wouldn't be good to talk about this type of this here.

[ArMaGeDdOn]

*shrugs*

they're stupid?

[NeuroKnight]

[ArMaGeDdOn]

QUOTE (NeuroKnight @ Jan 8 2003, 05:11 AM)

Someone is stupid, but I don't think it's Intel or AMD.

yes.  that stupid stupid MS.  oh well.  what can ya do!