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Vetteman94 on 08 April 2010
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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 rough math is bad.  282 trillion codes would only take one PS3 2.2 years to get through.  But a cluster of about 20 woudd only take 41 days.   And when they add the other 40, it will take a little under 14 days. 

For reference, At 4 million passwords a second a PS3 could do 345.6 billion passwords a day.