>>30
His only mistake was assuming that a general purpose PC can do 5-6 million crypts per second. About 1.5 million would be more accurate. The remaining calculations are sound.
Output of crypt can be A-Z, a-z, 0-9, . or / - this gives 26 + 26 + 10 + 2 = 64 different characters.
A tripcode contains 8 characters, so the theoretical (perhaps not all can be created) tripcode space is 64
8 = 281,474,976,710,656.
Divide that by the crypts per second. Further divide that by 86400 (number of seconds in a day) - you now have the number of days. I make that 2172 days for my 1.5 millions estimate and 543 days for his 6 million.
Divide by the number of computers working on it. Mr
>>29 says thirty. That gives 72 days for my estimate of cps and 18 days for his.