-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2013 04:25 PM, Christopher Walters wrote:
> As for the NSA, they closely guard how many supercomputers they > have and how many they use for decryption. However, if you are on > their In 1999 and 1998 the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (psc.edu) was home to three Cray supercomputers (Mario (XMP), Jaromir (YMP), and an unnamed third that they were beta testing for Cray at the time). They were heating the entire complex with the waste heat from those three Crays, and still venting plenty of heated air to keep everything from melting down (everything else they had in the data center, from x86 servers to a couple of VAXen acting as front ends, as I recall). The infrastructure for supercomputing is immense, and very visible in the sense of taking up a lot of space as well as power requirements. Those facilities would stick out a country mile, and should be fairly easy to spot, leading to more focused speculation if nothing else. I read in a couple of articles that No Such Agency has their own chip foundry someplace. It seems reasonable to wonder out loud if they do not have ASIC attacks against some cryptosystems (does anyone else remember Deep Crack?) implemented. Perhaps all of the NSA's vaunted supercomputing power takes the form of racks and racks of servers with custom ASICs implementing those attacks instead of massively parallel architectures of general purpose computers running software attacks. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Long story short, that's how I wound up on Wikipedia." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFnBlUACgkQO9j/K4B7F8FeFwCguwOagSOCmzjB0ZZuoX8JHXPQ 6E0AoOI8EUIdMaU1rlbtRr48KcTkcEFx =XR5H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
