On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:40:21AM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > The threshold just to > break AES128 is so immense that it may as well be a brick wall;
...at the moment. One Xbox360 runs more FLOPS than the world's fastest supercomputer of little more than a decade ago (a fact that I still find incredible). Of course, encryption is more about integer performance than FLOPS, but I suspect that integer performance has scaled in the same orders of magnitude. -- David Smith | Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 462305 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West | TINA: 065 2380 GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 Almondsbury | Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BRISTOL, BS32 4SQ | Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
