[rescue] Worthy Project?

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:58:43PM -0800, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Al Potter wrote:
> >
> > > Anybody got any spare MIPS?
> > >
> > > Dave, is the "J" up and running?
> > >
> > >
> > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/05/1456203&mode=nested&tid=109
> >
> >
> > 2048 bits! That is almost impossible to crack by using brute force....
>
> Unless you get lucky.  That has to be what they are aiming for.

Jeez good luck to then, those odds are so infinitesimal compared to any
modern lottery that the project is laughable at best.

I do not think they fully comprehend cryptography or the massive search
space that a 2048 bit sequence represents.