recent brute-force work factor calculations

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Murray
Does anyone know of a recent brute-force work factor calculation for the various common symmetric ciphers? I.e. it'll take X 3.2gh Xeons Y years to brute cipher Z. I know there's a table of these in Schneier and there's the "Seven Cryptographers" paper but they're

Brute force

2002-04-27 Thread gfgs pedo
hi. I tried a programme in C under dos. It would check 444 words per second on a 133 mega hertz intel processor and the same number of checks on a 1 Giga hertz processor. Is it because the dos clock runs at a slow constant speed? Also what if the same code is ported to unix.Is the execution