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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. how about... by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Open Sesame..

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    for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".