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  1. Powder Toy by Bri3D · · Score: 1 · on Simple, Portable Physics Simulations

    Throwing in a shameless plug for a game I worked on - Powder Toy ( http://powder.unaligned.org/ ) - it may not be physically accurate (at all) but it's a lot of fun and would introduce them to pressure and velocity in a fun way.

  2. Powder Game or Powder Toy - Fireworks-like program by borbetomagus · · Score: 1, Interesting · on The Chemistry of Firework Displays

    Someone might enjoy these two programs which allow fireworks-like effects: http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/ http://powder.unaligned.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESkoRgSeJo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf2JSKHWe0

  3. Could it be broken with FPGAs? by Bugs42 · · Score: 1 · on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data

    The big problem for the victim here is that RSA with a key that big can't be brute-forced in any sort of reasonable time on current computers. But what about using FPGAs, something like this?
    Is RSA immune to these kind of solutions? As I understand it* the inherent parallelism of FPGAs makes them well-suited to this kind of thing
    *based on Wikipedia and a single university course in VHDL coding.

  4. Re:Truecrypt by kramulous · · Score: 1 · on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government"

    True ... Truecrypt is badass for the powers that be.

    However, fear mongers will really, really hate talented individuals that post step-by-step instructions on how to set up http://nsa.unaligned.org/.

  5. Re:What about FPGAs? by phantomcircuit · · Score: 1 · on New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together

    That has already been done, but it is far more complicated to setup.
    http://nsa.unaligned.org/

  6. Like this one. Impressive! by miknix · · Score: 0 · on New Password Recovery Technique Uses CPU and GPU Together

    Like this one that's capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) for SHA-1 in about a day! Impressive!

    http://nsa.unaligned.org/

  7. I dont if its relevent........ by allaunjsilverfox2 · · Score: 1 · on Apple Cuts Off Linux iPod Users

    But I saw a post about a sha/md5 cracker http://nsa.unaligned.org/ Could that help at all?

  8. I recognise that pattern! by 6Yankee · · Score: 1 · on SHA-1 Cracking On A Budget

    Cool diagram.

    I used to draw patterns like that while suffering through triple Maths - draw a circle, mark off every 10 degrees (or 5 if it looked like being really boring today), then join every point to every other point. Mindless, yet strangely satisfying.

    And what kind of nerd site doesn't let you use a degree symbol?

  9. Re:How fast is that? by owlstead · · Score: 1 · on SHA-1 Cracking On A Budget

    "NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently."

    So your 2200+ AMD is beaten to little pieces by this monster.

    Source, well, you had to click a single link to their homepage. That'll learn you to post early. Or not, since I supplied you the answer anyway.

  10. SHA-cracker? by owlstead · · Score: 5, Informative · on SHA-1 Cracking On A Budget

    That's nice, his own SHA-1 cracker. But, even with advanced cryptographic attacks, SHA-1 is still in the order of 2^63. Not something you would like to try with just a few FPGA's. What is meant here is a cracker to find out which plain text, with limited entropy, is used to create a certain hash value. A SHA-1-based password cracker would therefore be a better name, I suppose.

    It seems from here that it searches a 64 ^ 8 = (2 ^ 6) ^ 8 = 2 ^ 48 keyspace in 24 hours. No small feat, it should therefore do about 3,257,812,230 hashes in a second. It does 800 concurrently, which makes for 4 million a second per SHA-1 unit. Ouch, that's really fast.

    Note that this could be done with any hash or symmetric algorithm, as long as it can be implemented on FPGA. So the moral of the story: use very long password (or even better, pass phrases), or make sure that they won't be able to acquire the hash.