Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards

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."

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Portrayal

[Dan East]

I like the way this is portrayed in a totally positive light, as if a person, upon forgetting the password to their device, is going to go out and buy one of these video cards, install it in a machine capable of supporting it (PSU wattage, bus speed, OS, etc), purchase the proprietary "password breaker" software (sold by the company that authored this "story"), all just to recover their password. I think the typical usage for this type of setup is of a more nefarious sort.