alt Hacker News2^(12*4) is 281,474,976,710,656 possible 12 character strings so seriously impressive that it can look through that many in an hour.
2^(12*4) is 281,474,976,710,656 possible 12 character strings so seriously impressive that it can look through that many in an hour.
A bit over 4 hours at 18 billion per second, but yea. Impressively fast and also a completely reasonable amount of time for an attempt - the CPU version was 10m per second, which is most of a year to search the whole space.