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SHA-1 Cracking On A Budget

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-the-pieces-together dept.

cloude-pottier writes "An enterprising individual went on eBay and found boards with more than half a dozen Virtex II Pro FPGAs, nursed them back to life and build a SHA-1 cracker with two of the boards. This is an excellent example of recycling, as these were originally a part of a Thompson Grass Valley HDTV broadcast system. As a part of the project, the creator wrote tools designed to graph the relationships between components. He also used JTAG to make reverse engineering the organization of the FPGAs on the board more apparent. More details can be seen on the actual project page."

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  1. Re:SHA-cracker? by LarsG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Telling the whole world about it might not be the smartest thing to do.

    EFF seems to think it is the smartest thing to do.

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  2. Re:Maybe I'm Not As Big A Nerd As I Thought... by lindseyp · · Score: 4, Funny

    What? You mean TFA didn't have the right TLA's or FLA's or maybe FPGA's are just not your COT and SHA-1 is no BFD to you but to URG it's a BFD.

    what?

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  3. Re:For the uninitiated... by Poromenos1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about if you write an FPGA simulator program and simulate an FPGA simulating a CPU running your program? Will the universe implode?

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