Security → Hash/Password cracking with GPU's

Interesting article on how to crack hashes/passwords with readily available GPU's.

Building Your Own GPU Enabled Private Cloud

It is technical but it shows just how fast brute force attacks can be performed by anyone with a little knowledge and spare cash.

Nice little geek project Wonder if I could lease it out to three letter agencies of the world or not... [/joke]

Regards

I suspect the NSA uses custom designed chips specific to calculating certain hash types, such as the systems commercially available for mining bitcoins.

Such as "Earlier this month, CoinTerra revealed the TerraMiner IV, a two terahash per second ASIC Bitcoin miner that will sell for $13,999 and is set to ship in December 2013."

2 Trillion Hashes per second on just one system....

»arstechnica.com/business ··· r-16000/

At the end of the day though, not even a 1,000 of these systems will help if the website in question uses decent iterative slow hashing methods and your password is something like..... JJCgg4R4p*P2xUd#