From: mechanicjay@sol.smbfc.net   
      
   On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:01:18 +1000, auanon  wrote:   
   >Awesome... I wonder how long it would take a machine like that to do any   
   >kind of modern encryption? I remember watching this old talk, I think   
   >from linux.conf.au, with some old VAXEN. Apparently it took something   
   >like 4-6 hours. Surely ciphers aren't _that_ intensive though...   
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   A friend of mine was messing with NetBSD current on a DecStation   
   2100.  When generating keys, he gave up after 48 hours. :)   
      
   Generally, though, I feel like any cipher these machines could   
   handle in a reasonable amount of time are also trivially   
   crackable either due to known weaknesses or simply the   
   bruteforce power of modern computers - at which point, what's   
   really the point of pretending.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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