Cracking PGP In the Cloud

pariax writes "So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure? Electric Alchemy has published a writeup detailing their experiences cracking PGP ZIP archives using brute force computing power provided by Amazon EC2 and a distributed password cracker from Elcomsoft."

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Distrubuted Computing

[Anonymous Coward]

If only they'd thought of using distributed computing for the first post, instead of password cracking!

In a word

[LizardKing]

So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure?

No

Re:And tons of carbon enter the air

[noidentity]

[And tons of carbon enter the air] At least fold some proteins if you're going to do this. Or look for aliens.

How do you know they weren't cracking a PGP'd zip archive containing secret documents about alien protein folding technology?

Re:And tons of carbon enter the air

[somersault]

Damnit, my password is all vowels again!

Re:Windows, yuck

[rvw]

What chore that they need to use Windows. For a brute force password guesser, most Slashdotters could write it in 10 lines of perl.

I think ten lines of Perl would be the ideal password somehow.

Re:And tons of carbon enter the air

[MrMr]

No problem, I've got a monitor full with post-it notes. So my policy must be excellent.

Re:Pointless

[fbjon]

Didn't you hear? The Cloud is the new Internet.

1995: mail, shopping, and parallel computing.... on The Internet

2009: mail, shopping, and parallel computing .... in The Cloud