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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. Re:And tons of carbon enter the air by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll
    Was that really your first thought on reading the headline? Sad how tainted people's minds are these days. Reminds me of the preacher who sees Satan's hand in everything or the policeman who is convinced that all teenagers are criminals. When your perspective is that skewed...jeez I don't know what to say.

    Assuming I want to use some spare CPU cycles for some purpose or other, where should I apply to make sure it's OK? So far, we have protein folding and alien hunting as acceptable: what are some other uses of spare CPU that are acceptable and unacceptable?

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