31 Jul
2001
31 Jul
'01
7:20 p.m.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:16:24 PDT, Roeland Meyer said:
... and then they load it on www.distributed.net
Assuming that *all 4 billion* possible IPv4 addresses download and run it, this cuts it *at most* down to 22,982 years. And that's assuming that the EFF attack is *ONE* host, and that *all 4 billion* have equivalent hardware. I don't see 4 billion copies of the EFF box on the net, do you? -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech