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stavros on Feb 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The World’s Fastest DES Cracker

Per dollar? Or per watt?

abiogenesis on Feb 2, 2021 [–]

It's only 25x per dollar (initial investment; not running costs):

> In 1998 the Electronic Frontier Foundation built the EFF DES Cracker. It cost around $250,000

> The system that you're renting time on is over $100k in specialized FPGA hardware

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