I love living in the future.

[theweaselking]

CycleCloud tears through twelve and a half machine-years of computing in 3 hours, delivering a 51,000 core computer with 59 TB of RAM... for $5000/hr in machine fees.

Admittedly, they pulled every spare machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud to do it, but *they did it*. Utility supercomputing, for a teeny fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a real supercomputer.

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[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

And suddenly, all those crypto algorithms that everyone says 'no worries, it'd take 500 years of computing time to brute-force' no longer seem anywhere near so secure.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Usually the crypto brute forcing numbers are more like "if every molecule of matter in the universe was a bit in a quantum computer, it would still take you longer than now to heat death to complete your brute force run".

Which is why nobody brute-forces the keys, they go after the weak parts - the passphrase, the user, etc.