From: ultimathule@none.invalid   
      
   On 11/11/25 2:38 PM, Mechanicjay wrote:   
   > 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...   
   >> --   
   >> PGP ID: 0xCBA5A1DB4336CE5EB5FDF1DF18B65A09AE9011BA   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   elliptic curve cryptography should be fast enough.  my processor can   
   generate ~20,000 Ed25519 key pairs per second, so it shouldn't take you   
   48 hours for one.  just don't try generating large RSA key pairs.   
      
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