Re: [EXTERNAL] Forum hacked

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jan 29, 2015; 5:06am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Forum-hacked-tp7584291p7586022.html

 

TL;DR - Current GPU-based password cracking using 20-million word dictionaries make truly random passwords below 14 characters and nearl all pass-phrases susceptible to cracking in a relatively short time.

 

 

There are an increasing variety of cryptographic algorithms being developed under the auspices of altcoin cryptocurrency mining.    Hardware that can do 1 trillion hashes a second for just a few hundred watts and less than $1000.    There’s hardware SSL capabilities on systems like Sparc T4s (for secure webservers).   And then there’s OpenCL to FPGAs for special cases.   Pretty much hopeless I think.

 

Marcus

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