On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:19:25 +0300, Jose Munoz wrote:
>
>Someone can comment on it, I received an email from an Open System college
>arguing that mainframe is very weak...please help me to answer it:
>
Well, first you need to access the encrypted password file, and/or bypass the
prevalent three-strikes-and-out rule.

>oclHashcat v1.20 support added to crack RACF (IBM mainframe) hashes with 1
>Billion (Giga) Hashes/second on a single stock clocked hd6990 graphics
>card: http://pastebin.com/Cqdhe3kR
>
>I didn't expect IBM's Mainframe password hashing to be so weak :(
>In comparison, the SHA512 hash is cracked at 0.217 BH/s (GH/s) on the same
>graphics card: http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/
> 
Order of hours (Fermi estimate).  Has there been a realistic White Hat test
in either environment?

-- gil

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