Interesting Work Factors

[Ian Mason]

On 16 May 2008, at 06:30, Ian G Batten wrote:
>
> 256k?  What does that mean?  And if it's a mistake for 256 bits,  
> 100 years
> to brute force a 256 bit means on average 10^67 operations per second,
> which seems implausible (*).
>

Ah, you're a bit behind on technology. This is a recently defined  
unit of entropy.
The k stands for kitten. It's the entropy available from leaving one  
kitten with
one Wii Fit for one second. 256k is therefore obviously the entropy  
available from
leaving 256 kittens on a Wii Fit for one second. This unit scales in  
a highly
non-linear and non-uniform fashion with number of kittens.