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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!