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Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker by abiogenesis on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:03PM (#25997018)
True, but the cost hasn't changed by the same magnitude:

> 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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Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker by ARandomerDude on Monday February 01, 2021 @10:13PM (#25997079)
$250K in 1998 is $400K today, if the inflation calculator I found on Google is correct. So there's a 4X decrease in inflation adjusted cost. Not an order of magnitude, but it's something.
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Re:The World’s Fastest DES Cracker by hedgehog on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:56PM (#25997566)
Those are also older FPGAs, price for the same performance today would be lower.
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