[tashbarg]

Mathematicians do not have funding for „large scale“. A 10-year old mid-range server is exactly the kind of system I would expect Magma to run on in the average case. Perhaps even just a desktop pc.

Source: worked with algebra researchers using Magma.

[czbond]

I was being a bit facetious, but not by much. Maybe because they're mathematicians and had found a theorem - but a pen tester wouldn't have.

It costs less than a few hundred bucks to do numerous, multi compute AWS server spot instances for cracks on large dictionaries with large hash rates, on random seed password lists (where each password has it's own seed).

If it was trying to crack a quantum-safe where by design the classical computer shouldn't be able to even solve it (except for potentially with a theorem hole) - you'd think they'd start higher.