Friday, November 30, 2007

Crack Passwords with a PS3

Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland, Australia-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords.

By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10--15 million cycles per second -- in Intel-based architecture -- up to 1.4 billion cycles per second.
Now I really want one of these...

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wow.. this is another great break through.. this thing is gonna be so huge in future

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