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Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the feel-safe-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs, and up to two times faster compared to enterprise-level NVIDIA Tesla solutions. Benchmarks performed by ElcomSoft demonstrate that ATI Radeon HD5970 accelerated password recovery works up to 20 times faster than Core i7-960, Intel's current top of the line CPU unit."

10 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Slashvertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Editors,

    You forgot a link to the buying page
    For as low as 1.399,- € you can start cracking^Wrecovering passwords today.

  2. Re:My password. by Jazz-Masta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great! now when I go into the bank with my stack of Radeon cards they'll call security.

  3. Re:My password is safe by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, haven't you heard? It's really insecure to use such a short password. And yours is surely the shortest EVAR.

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  4. Re:Out of curiosity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good point. Why would I assume a graphics card operation would have any effect on graphics? I've only ever used mine to take ice off the windshield.

  5. Re:My password. by PawNtheSandman · · Score: 1, Funny

    How dare you call me here! This is an unlisted wall!

  6. Re:My password. by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great! now when I go into the bank with my stack of Radeon cards they'll call security.

    No, you're only doing them a favour by "recovering" their passwords.

  7. Re:Stop with the advertising by jank1887 · · Score: 2, Funny

    come on. It CLEARLY states that "An anonymous reader" wrote that summary.

  8. Re:Portrayal by hatten · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I didn't knew clippy could do password cracking!

  9. Re:Out of curiosity... by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does your screen look like while a program like this is running?

    Well I haven't kept up with the latest developments, but if it's anything like the Sinclair ZX80 I'm posting from, the screen goes blank gray when you start actively computing. Then it returns to normal when the answer is ready.

  10. Re:My password is safe by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try resetting someone's password to 'obvious' when they call in with a 'forgotten password'. Then see how long you can string them along by saying "I've reset your password - the new one's obvious..."

    Caller: "What? Like my surname?"
    You: "No, it's obvious"
    Caller "First name?"
    You "No"
    Caller "letmein?"

    Yeah, it's been a bad day!

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    AT&ROFLMAO