Password Cracking with GPUs

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Password Cracking with GPUs

June 04, 2011, 11:19:16 PM

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http://mytechencounters.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/gpu-password-cracking-crack-a-windows-password-using-a-graphic-card/

Article says they can brute force passwords at 3.3 billion/second with a GPU, compared to only 9.8 million/second with the CPU. Curious what some of you guys can get with your rigs.

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Re: Password Cracking with GPUs

June 04, 2011, 11:31:56 PM

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Wrong forum. This is for mining..

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Re: Password Cracking with GPUs

June 04, 2011, 11:38:36 PM

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add 1-2 zeroes to those numbers, this would give you the ballpark idea.... though people are kind of busy with bitcoin mining and do not care about passwords much....

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Re: Password Cracking with GPUs

June 04, 2011, 11:50:53 PM

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well, makes you add a few characters to the encryption of you wallet.dat doesnt it?

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Re: Password Cracking with GPUs

June 05, 2011, 12:12:55 AM

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Old news is old.

Where do you think the inspiration for some of these miner implementations came from?