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- From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: What's the overall ratio?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 16:52:23 GMT
- Organization: Just me.
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- Message-ID: <1icec7INNo3h@uwm.edu>
- References: <1993Jan04.051300.26089@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> <cfG9faf0Bwwb4F5T9z@transarc.com> <1993Jan05.160811.29681@rchland.ibm.com>
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- Summary: Was: Another well-intentioned novice's question
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- An interesting point was made in a previous article about the fact that
- the estimates of time for which something will probably be secure aren't
- taking into account the rapid increase in the computing power available
- over that time... So I was wondering:
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- Has anyone got a function which approximately models the progressive
- increase in computing power (in, let's say, [Mega]FLOPs) over the years
- which might reasonably be used for rough prediction? Something like
- this, incorporated into the equations for probable crack-times would
- give a more realistic estimate.
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- Rick Miller <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us> Ricxjo Muelisto
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