[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is true on current technology,but MIT, US Govt., England > etc. etc. are working on quantom computers that can break DES in > a few min. How much computer power do these governments have? > Way beyond terahertz, but have they hit petahertz?
Clock speed isn't everything... there's *nothing* that I'm aware of that is in terahertz or any other ridiculous speed like that. What you do see is massively parallel systems... dozens or hundreds of CPUs running at XXX MHz. -- John Oliver System Administrator hosting.com, an Allegiance Telecom company mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (858) 637-3600 http://www.hosting.com/