Comment Re:Xbox Concern? (Score 5, Insightful) 190
Good lord. We're supposed to be geeks here, right? Let's do the math on this.
The Xbox uses a keyspace of 2^2048. So far, the project has manage to do a little over 17 billion keys, call it 2^34 keys. That means, they have managed to test roughly fuck all. If Microsoft sent a negative result back for the actual key, the chances are higher that a couple of inopportune cosmic rays would change the result to positive, than they are that these guys are going to test even 3*(fuck all), before people figure out that the method is hopeless. Vague mumblings on their site about "a chaos thing" does not make brute force search in that sort of keyspace any less hopeless.
You can make $10,000 by solving a problem that's 1/(2^1472) as difficult by cracking RSA-576. Why are we paying attention to these guys?
The Xbox uses a keyspace of 2^2048. So far, the project has manage to do a little over 17 billion keys, call it 2^34 keys. That means, they have managed to test roughly fuck all. If Microsoft sent a negative result back for the actual key, the chances are higher that a couple of inopportune cosmic rays would change the result to positive, than they are that these guys are going to test even 3*(fuck all), before people figure out that the method is hopeless. Vague mumblings on their site about "a chaos thing" does not make brute force search in that sort of keyspace any less hopeless.
You can make $10,000 by solving a problem that's 1/(2^1472) as difficult by cracking RSA-576. Why are we paying attention to these guys?
