Re: Encryption over Hidden Services

[coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> | On my 1.5GHz x86-machine, I get about 500k hashes/sec.
> | +---------------------------------------------+
> | | chars | ~number of tries | ~time @ 500 KH/s |
>  [snip]
> | |     6 |      32^6  =  1g |           30 min |
> | |     7 |      32^7  = 32g |            1 day |
> | |     8 |      32^8  =  1t |          25 days |
> | |     9 |      32^9  = 32t |        2.5 years |

to throw in my $0.02, this is quite low for any kind of on-demand
computing resource within the same league of difficulty. at $200 you
can get grid/cloud compute time on the order of 200B hashes/hour (160
cores, 160 G memory) for 3-4 hours. and getting cheaper every day...

best regards,