---
id: 1894
title: "64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody!"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/27/64-bits-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/"
published_at: "2019-11-27T11:01:30Z"
tags: ["cloud", "gpu", "performance", "benchmarking", "brute-force", "trail-of-bits", "simd", "parallelization", "cloud-computing"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1894"
lang: en
---

# 64 Bits ought to be enough for anybody!

## Summary

Trail of Bits benchmarks brute-forcing a 64-bit number, scaling from a naive loop through SIMD, multi-core, GPU, and cloud approaches to quantify how hardware accelerates exhaustive search.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2019-11-27T11:01:30Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/11/27/64-bits-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1894