On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 01.03.2014 21:25, Roy Smith wrote: >> In article <mailman.7533.1393703687.18130.python-l...@python.org>, >> Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: >> >>> With software like [1] and a fast GPU >>> it is possible to do more than 10*10^9 checks/second for SHA-256. >> >> Just out of curiosity, how does that differ from 10^10 checks/second? > > > I find 10 * 10^9 easier to read because it has more resemblance to "10 > billion". Next time I'll use the normalized scientific form 1.0e10. ;)
I wasn't sure if it ought to have been 10^9 or 10^10. In any case, that makes only one order of magnitude of difference, and based on the way I generate passwords, that still leaves it at 60-ish years of GPU spinning. (It'd be 600 years at 10^9.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
