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The Death Throes of crypt()

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-too-bad dept.

dex writes "Tom Perrine and Devin Kowatch of the San Diego Supercomputer Center have issued "Teracrack: Password cracking using TeraFLOP and PetaByte Resources" (PDF, HTML version via Google). Using SDSC's prodigious computing facilities, they precomputed 207 billion crypt() hashes in 80 minutes."

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  1. Re:You missed the point by Eraser_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So Sun is doing what Intel/Microsoft does?

    At least apple knows when to cut users off. Even classic apps are being furiously killed off, let alone 68k. Oh yeah Duke3d and commander keen runs on my friends Athlon 2ghz with windows XP. In FreeBSD/Linux you can kill off support for older processors than you want to support easily, but the cludge is there in hardware still. Go 80386!