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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:49
David R. Conrad (drc@adni.net)
Fri, 5 Mar 1999 07:40:44 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Adam Shostack wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 07:04:23AM -0500, David R. Conrad wrote:
> | On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Vin McLellan wrote:
>
> | > Holding the matrix for a NFS attack on a 512-bit RSA-155 integer is
> | > also expected to require about 2.7 times as much memory as the 810 MB in
> | > C916 main memory that was used when they factored RSA-140. That's a
> | > whopping 2,187 MB.
> |
> | http://www.altavista.com/av/content/freshindex.htm mentions "state-of-the-
> | art two million dollar Alpha 8400 computers with 6 to 8 Gb of RAM and up
> | to 400 Gb of disk space each". I wonder if the folks at AltaVista could
> | be persuaded to participate in an effort to break such a number.
>
> Smart caches, solid programming, and clever instruction
> pipelining can address some of this, but people still pay extra for
> Crays because they really do solve some problems faster.
I didn't mean to suggest that Alpha workstations were substitutes for
supercomputers; rather, I was simply pointing out that there are already
machines with that kind of memory around.
David R. Conrad <drc@adni.net> PGP keys (0x1993E1AE and 0xA0B83D31):
DSS Fingerprint20 = 9942 E27C 3966 9FB8 5058 73A4 83CE 62EF 1993 E1AE
RSA Fingerprint16 = 1D F2 F3 90 DA CA 35 5D 91 E4 09 45 95 C8 20 F1
I will show you fear in a handful of cruft.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:49