Sony's OtherOS removal defeated...

[joeorc]

mirgro said:

joeorc said:

 

yes I know how to read:

slashdot-

"It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its '$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination' with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. Naturally this is only being used to break encryption on computers seized with a warrant and suspected of harboring child pornography."

The report notes that a six-digit password has nearly 282 trillion possible permutations, and the networked PS3 can attempt 4 million guesses per second.

it's single buddy they are talking about Each PS3.

I'm under the impression that each PS3 only has an output when it's networked like that, otherwise it's significantly less. SInce you know, the more cores you have the effect compounds so 4 would have a lot less ability than 8, not just half the ability.

Also just some rough math for you. Cracking 282 trillion codes, at 4 million a second will take 136 years give or take a few. This is also at only about 6 digit codes. Are you trying to tell me that the PSN encryption is solely 6 digits at the other end where you can't circumvent it? It'd have to be like 3 or 4 for a single PS3 to actually be able to do anything before the PS3 goes out of production.

well your impression is wrong.

example:

Breese was looking for a way to optimize processing to make MD5 calculations go very quickly, he says. MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is one of the most used cryptographic hash functions. The PS3 managed to conduct over 1.4 billion MD5 calculations a second, he says.

that's FROM just a single PS3!

this is not going to go anywhere, because no matter what you are going to think that Linux did not pose a threat , so I am going to agree to disagree and let this thread go.