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Comment by TacticalCoder

The puzzle is based on a paper from 1996 by Rivest, Shamir and Wagner: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf

Each step depends on the result of the previous step. I don't know of any claim that the crypto/maths behind the paper do not hold.

You can use a FPGA or build an ASIC: but as far as I know as long as the crypo in this paper hold, it's not parallelizable.

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