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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. A testament to crypt() by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Actually with most Unixish systems going to other password formats such as MD5 and Blowfish I'd think that this goes to show that (NSA notwithstanding) crypt() has had a long, healthy existance. Rather than saying 'crypt() is dead' they should be saying 'it took 30ish years but crypt() is at the end of its useful life'.

    Not many pieces of code will be able to boast that lifespan.

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    1. Re:A testament to crypt() by MooCows · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, quite a lot of them have it now, in the form of thousands of compromised machines.
      Can be used to DDOS, or to compute.

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