August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 59m
English
The CrackRSAWorkFactorDemo example shows the exponential growth in time required to crack RSA. Figure B-1 shows the output from this program. These results are from a 900 MHz PC.

If you want to compare these results on your own machine, and you want to know your machine's clock speed, see the following using Regedt32.exe.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/HARDWARE/DESCRIPTION/System/CentralProcessor/0
For numbers up to 13 bits, less than one millisecond is required. When 22 bits are used, it takes almost one second; 28 bits takes an hour; and if you had the patience, you ...
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