Just wondering…Can you use ASIC chips to hash passwords?

[vnvizow]

Just being a little cheeky but I do want to know the answer

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[dbbit]

You can build an ASIC to do anything you want it to do, but I take it your question is whether you can use one of the current Bitcoin mining ASIC's (e.g. a Blade Erupter) to hash passwords.

No. The output of a mining ASIC is not a Hash, it's a nonce.

[vnvizow]

You can build an ASIC to do anything you want it to do, but I take it your question is whether you can use one of the current Bitcoin mining ASIC's (e.g. a Blade Erupter) to hash passwords.

No. The output of a mining ASIC is not a Hash, it's a nonce.

Hmmm…forgot they're called Application Specific Integrated Chips. Thanks anyway, gotta do some research on that. and I said chips chips in the title 

[evansearle42]

no, GPU can..