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64 bits ought to be enough for anybody
How quickly can we use brute force to guess a 64-bit number? The short answer is, it all depends on what resources are available. So we’re going to examine this problem starting with the most naive approach and then expand to other techniques involving parallelization. We’ll discuss parallelization at the CPU level…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 2019 | 64 bits ought to be enough for anybody by beagle3 | 164 | 57 |