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Re: OT:Queries on Snort...


From: Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:29:16 -0400

Yeah.. it could happen.. I'm quite sure I'd have a better chance of playing a round of golf in a hurricane and hitting a hole in one on all 18 holes. (mind you I've only played 9 holes of golf my entire life).

(added OT to the subject, since this is now a silly conversation).

At 12:53 PM 8/30/2002 -0700, Billy Macdonald wrote:
> Even using all of distributed.net (assuming 300Gkey/sec which they are
> getting close to) it would take 35,942,991,748,521,060,268 years to exhaust
> a 128bit keyspace. (2^128 / 300G) / (60*60*24*365.25).

But what if you're really lucky and guess the key on the second attempt?

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