diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 396fe2c..69b1d0e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -87,10 +87,18 @@ performance-related tips. * How long is it going to take? - Because of probablistic nature of brute force key generation, and - varience of hardware it's going to run on, it's hard to make promisses - about how long it's going to take, especially when the most of users - want just a few keys.\ + Because of the probablistic nature of brute force key generation, and + varience of hardware it's going to run on, it's hard to make promises + about how long it's going to take, especially when most users want + just a few keys. + + The probabilty can be calculated with this equation:\ + $T={32^N \over H}$\ + where:\ + *T* is the average time to a match.\ + *N* is the length of the filter.\ + *H* is the number of calculations per second. + See [this issue][#27] for very valuable discussion about this.\ If your machine is powerful enough, 6 character prefix shouldn't take more than few tens of minutes, if using batch mode (read