Re: [OFFTOPIC]: Linux is losing to Macs in the RC5 effort!
Andy C. Brandt (andy@monk.cs.net.pl)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:43:19 +0100
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 09:14:47AM +0100, ketil@ii.uib.no wrote:
> George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org> writes:
>
> > Yeah but have you really looked at the stats? At the current rate of
> > number crunching, there is a 50/50 chance that the key will be found
> > sometime in the next 23 years.
>
> ...but if you calculate in Moore's law of doubling performance every 18
> months, you're down to only about seven years for a 50-50 chance. Even
> better, the keyspace will be exhausted in about nine years.
>
> Keep it running, keep upgrading, and keep the faith!
Well, maybe it would be wiser to help a more usefull project like SETI@home
(http://www.bigscience.com/) with our computing power.
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