Possible RSA-2048

[WALMART COP]

Quote: Originally Posted by sk8slut

This is what I was thinking about, if the entire community downloaded and ran a collaborative tool... I don't want to go too into my thoughts on the subject as I do not know much about it

-sk8

The same way the ps3 works with Stanford University. You download the program called Cure, which then uses the PS3 power to analyze complex human protein structures. To date over 2 million people worldwide have helped the cause.

Couldn't we do the same thing, but on a smaller scale?
Just asking

[DJ Shepherd]

if you want to see a semi understandable ratio for the ammount of time that would take, look at the link in my sig, a smaller encryption was bruteforced before and i made a simple ratio to compare the logic of that

plus, who the eff wants to sacrifice and pay electric bills for that much of 10 billion years?

[Haxalot88]

You're basing your time and numbers on a simple bruteforce calculation.
I say if you really wanted to build and run a program for people to collectively run to 'crack' the key, the go ahead. However, there are two things to note:
- firstly it would be better to just crack the xex key.
- secondly either way you need a better algorithm.

And while the chances of finding them in a reasonable time period is EXTREMELY slim (aka less than 0.000000001% even on a large-scale find), it still exists that someone could very well stumble upon it.
If you ever did attempt such a feat, you would need a bit more info before blindly cracking it.

[MaNgO MadDnEsS]

I don't like being quoted like this