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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by Animats on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:51PM (#14317484)
Is this really about a "code-breaking computer", or just some big data collection and analysis cluster? A code-breaking machine would look like a Bitcoin mining farm - all ASICs, very little storage, not much I/O, no disks. An collection and analysis machine looks like an ordinary data center.

Is this maybe the Cyrogenic Computer Complexity Program? [1] That's an attempt to build a 10GHz machine running in liquid helium.

[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&i...

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Re:NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer by phicoh on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:10PM (#14317641)
Breaking an RSA public key consists of two phases. The first phase is massively parallel and indeed doesn't require much storage.

However, the second phase requires solving a massive set of linear equations and requires a more conventional big computer.

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