GPU’s Used To Brute Force Crack Password Protection Schemes 10,000 Times Faster
Elcom announced that the newest version of their Distributed Password Recovery software can now brute force certain password / encryption schemes faster by using the massive parallelism of graphics processing units that support CUDA. With the correct combination of off the shelf components available from Nvidia, passwords can now be recovered up to 10,000 times faster then relying only on the CPU for processing.
Link: press release
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