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> a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long Indeed, best supercomputers are running today around 10 petaFLOPS (= 10^16 FLoating-point Operations Per S
by qpleple 13y ago
> a bruteforce over the MAC space wouldn't take long
Indeed, best supercomputers are running today around 10 petaFLOPS (= 10^16 FLoating-point Operations Per Second) and there are 2^48 ~= 10^15 possible MAC addresses.
- userbinator 13y agoA FLOP is quite a lot simpler than a SHA-1 hash, however. The Bitcoin network might be a better comparison since it uses doubled SHA-256; currently it's at around 3e16 hashes per second, or 6e16 SHA-256 operations per second. That's enough to hash all possible MACs in less than a second.