Password Cracking with GPUs

[lego23]

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.

[SomeoneWeird]

Wrong forum. This is for mining..

[Vladimir]

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....

[wachtwoord]

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

[supa]

Old news is old.

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