Or roughly 1.3M GPU hours. Less as GPUs get upgraded. Not sure how many AWS F1 (... | Hacker News

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		lallysingh on Oct 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SHA-1 'fully and practically broken' by new collis... Or roughly 1.3M GPU hours. Less as GPUs get upgraded. Not sure how many AWS F1 (FPGA) hours it would take.

wongarsu on Oct 12, 2021 [–]

So somewhere between $300,000 (running consumer GPUs cheaply) and $30 million (paying AWS on-demand prices for Tesla V100).

Even the upper bound for that seems well worth it for well-funded attackers if the target is juicy enough.

lallysingh on Oct 14, 2021 | [–]

Consumer GPUs could be run from a botnet, actually... Yikes.

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