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Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs

Posted by Soulskill on from the add-a-character-every-six-months dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We all know that brute-force attacks with a CPU are slow, but GPUs are another story. Tom's Hardware has an interesting article up on WinZip and WinRAR encryption strength, where they attempt to crack passwords with Nvidia and AMD graphic cards. Some of their results are really fast — in the billions of passwords per second — and that's only with two GTX 570s!"

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  1. old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this has been known since 2009....

  2. Re:Umm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Does anyone else remember the days when slashdot readers were technical? This discussion is fucking painful.

  3. Re:Umm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone remember when you could come on this website and have a discussion on this website and learn about new concepts and ideas? Don't be so bitter, even you were a noob at some point in your life.

  4. Re:Why are GPUs faster? by TerranFury · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More like, a GPU is a freight train moving at 15 MPH, a CPU is a Ferarri doing 120MPH, and you need to transport a warehouse of boxes across country.