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Cracking PGP In the Cloud

Posted by kdawson on from the distant-thunder dept.

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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  1. Distrubuted Computing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. In a word by LizardKing · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    No

  3. Re:And tons of carbon enter the air by noidentity · · Score: 3, Funny

    [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?

  4. Re:Windows, yuck by rvw · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:And tons of carbon enter the air by MrMr · · Score: 3, Funny

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