Re: Has anyone made progress on that CUDA client?

"John L. Bass" <jbass-/[email protected]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:25:15 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.distributed-net.hardware
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Martin wrote:
> John L. Bass wrote:
>
>   
>> What really sucks, is that the RSA guys make a killing selling their
>> company ($1.3B if I remember right), and then they expect everyone to do
>> crypto research to improve their product for free. Like the $10,000
>> prizes for RC5 keys would break the bank. Or even the better factoring
>> challenges.
>>     
>
> I agree -
> $10k was "cool" to some college kids - what, 10 years ago?
> It should be at least $100k now, and much higher if they expect any
> serious research. Which I suspect they don't.
>
> -
> Martin
>   
Actually, they have a $1.3B reason to suppress research which might 
damage the product.

John
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