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Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker by StavrosK on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:05PM (#25996687)
Per dollar? Or per watt?
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Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker by abiogenesis on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:04PM (#25997026)
It's only 25x per dollar (initial investment; not running costs):

> In 1998 the Electronic Frontier Foundation built the EFF DES Cracker. It cost around $250,000

> The system that you're renting time on is over $100k in specialized FPGA hardware

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