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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:Need better crypto by Directrix1 · · Score: 2, Troll

    Your name is ObviousGuy for a reason then, huh?

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    Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF