[Centurion2000]

There is a guy here on FR who has been banned a few times for posting anti-Darwin threads. He is the expert on hacking/security and assembly language. If anyone here can get into this, it will be him. Instead of going into the higher level, hacking, he goes down into the assembly code, into the bowels of computer software. I don’t know what his current FR name is.

NO ONE is cracking AES 256 without a few DOZEN more major breakthroughs in computer processor speeds. This ain't your daddy's WEP 64 bit encryption algorithm.

[DBrow]

Maybe someone at a movie company. Digital effects, especially rendered effects, use giant server farms to process the huge amounts of calculations and imaging, frame by frame.

Using the Pixar setup for a couple months maybe?

Then there are the Google clusters, which are pretty big. But they’d never use that capability for evil, their motto says so!