Friday, 30. November 2007
Topic: COMPUTER - on November 30, 2007 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Hacker Uses Sony PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords
Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3.
By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10--15 million cycles per second -- in Intel-based architecture -- up to 1.4 billion cycles per second.
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