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Re:Download Atom editor without an invite by userbinator on Sunday March 02, 2014 @08:39AM (#7329108)
A FLOP is quite a lot simpler than a SHA-1 hash, however.

The Bitcoin network might be a better comparison since it uses doubled SHA-256; currently it's at around 3e16 hashes per second, or 6e16 SHA-256 operations per second. That's enough to hash all possible MACs in less than a second.

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