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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by MrXOR on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:51PM (#19784430)
Excuse me, Another question:

From [1]:

>> Cryptophage project solved it in 2 months.

What about ASICs (NSA's power and love!)? How long would it take? any estimation? 2 days? :-)

[1] https://www.cryptophage.com

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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by Supranational on Monday April 29, 2019 @10:00PM (#19784469)
We are currently investigating ASICs, but a rough estimation would be that they could be at least 10x faster, if not more (e.g. 6 days or less)
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