Kent Borg wrote:
Interesting. So they can brute-force an entire 32-space in a fraction of a second and a 64-bit space in a bit over a half a year. But an 80-bit space can't be completely traversed in 38,000 years. Even if the NSA is really really angry and the president says to get the bastard...just 80-bits is pretty dang good.
In 2011, researchers created a tool called Cloud Cracking Suite capable of testing 50,000 SHA-1 passwords per second using eight Amazon nVidia GPU instances.
Last year, a similar project stuffed 25 AMD GPUs in a 4U sized box. It is capable of testing just shy of 350 billion NTLM passwords per second. Four such boxes -- 100 GPUs -- running in parallel can surpass the trillion passwords per second mark. Total cost is less than $50K.
The NSA has computing facilities measured in acres. -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
