I know a chip designer who explained to me that when they are testing chips for functionality, workability and general integrity, they will run test chips on a wafer. So while expensive, it is possible to do short runs on custom cpu's. Test runs happen everyday at every foundry. It is completely plausible that a company might have a few thousand custom chips used to crack various algorithms. all it takes is money and motivation.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:57 PM, The Doctor <dr...@virtadpt.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/05/2013 02:01 PM, Andrew F wrote: > > > Basically he said that with quantum computing all bets are off and > > every cipher today will likely be cracked. Quantum computing will > > require new kinds of ciphers and only those with Qcomputers will be > > able to decrypt the messages. > > I will just leave this here... > > https://www.google.com/search?q=post+quantum+cryptography > > - -- > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] > Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ > > PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 > WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ > > "Long story short, that's how I wound up on Wikipedia." > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlFnB6UACgkQO9j/K4B7F8GdRgCfVAaTUosAHn4Rz9AH7YQxdscv > 3A8An3qfJ27MG2SkfWtJ5KeEMdjjdZOs > =OVuj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk