Faster Password Recovery with modern GPUs
Summary:
Password Cracking: Trends
Changes in past five years:
•«Salting»used to avoid pre-computations
•(Much) Stronger cryptography is used
•Password cracking became much slower
What can be done?
•Continue research
•Increase password recovery speed
Password Recovery: How to do it Faster?
•Free for End-Users
•Limited speedup (10-20%)
•Need to re-optimize for every new CPU
Software Optimization
•Expensive devices
•Won’t work with software from other vendors
•Not very cost-effective
Special Hardware
•Hardware already installed in many computers
•Cost-effective
•Compatible with software from different vendors
•Can be used for other applications
Common Hardware
Format:
Pages : 26
Size: 682 kb
Author : Andrey Belenko