Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs 128
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!"
old news (Score:2, Insightful)
this has been known since 2009....
Re:Umm... (Score:1, Insightful)
Does anyone else remember the days when slashdot readers were technical? This discussion is fucking painful.
Re:Umm... (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.
Re:Why are GPUs faster? (Score:5, Insightful)