Brute-Force Password Cracking with GPUs

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20, 2011 @02:35AM

An anonymous reader writes "We all know that brute-force attacks with a CPU are slow, but GPUs are another store. 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, like in the billions of passwords per second, and that's only with two GTX 570s!"
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by wintertargeter (2012914) writes:

Interesting article, but I wonder if CPUs are only slower at brute-force attacks because there haven't been new optimized programs.
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    by wintertargeter (2012914) writes:
    
    but isn't every new password that you're trying technically different?

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