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December 5, 2012 03:11 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gdpnDM10SpI/cracking-passwords-with-25-gpu.html
Cracking passwords with 25 GPUs
Security Ledger reports on a breakthrough in password-cracking, using 25 graphics cards in parallel to churn through astounding quantities of password possibilities in unheard-of timescales. It's the truly the end of the line for passwords protected by older hashing algorithms and illustrates neatly how yesterday's "password that would take millions of years to break" is [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gdpnDM10SpI/cracking-passwords-with-25-gpu.html
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