Linux by Knight Post 045 Flame's Crypto Attack May have Needed $200,000 Worth of Compute Power

A cluster of 200 PlayStation 3 consoles used in 2008 to find a cryptographic collision in the MD5 algorithm.

Alex Sotirov

From:  http://arstechnica.com





The cryptographic attack that Flame engineers used to hijack Microsoft's Windows Update process was so computationally demanding, it would have required the equivalent of $200,000 worth of computing time from Amazon's EC2 Web service for most people to carry it out.

Link:  http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-attack-may-have-needed-massive-compute-power/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29  

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