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He's only providing a lower bound for this numbers, he specifically spells your concerns. He mentions that any improvement on:

* number of cores per CPU

* number of CPUs per server

* any improvements in cryptanalysis

* instruction set improvements (arm sha1, gpus)

Will only make his number even scarier.




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