On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Douglas Handy wrote:

> password.  However, you can also easily segment the test ranges to
> allow multiple PC's to each check a subset of the potential range, so
> all it would take is 5 PC's of my vintage to find it in under 22
> minutes.
>


Actually there are some special DES/crypto crackers that are actually
multiple parallel processors on the same board that use specialized
software to do just that concept...




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