GPU used for password cracking
October 25th, 2007 by
Russian people are known to do things in a way one can’t imagine. Elcomsoft, a company based in Moscow has found a password cracking technique that uses the same parallel processing concepts to speed up dictionary and brute force attacks on things like Windows Vista password logins. The firm says that the Geforce 8800 is up to 25 times faster than a CPU, in general used for such tasks. I think crunching heavy graphics (in games) definitely require more power than playing with text (read password cracking). They should try by combining two graphic cards too (SLI) which will yield better results I an sure, but no one knows that they may be trying with four! After all they are Russians.







