On 08/12/2014 03:03 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Custom cracking chips are great, but the modern way is to use a GPU (or collection of GPUs).
I believe I had previously mentioned that. However one might, say as a graduate student project, legitimately get this multicore and 're-purpose' it at evenings and weekends.
That's why most people consider maintaining a table of all possible 16-char passwords unfeasible. It is the difficulty of generating the information, it's the storage capacity required to maintain it.
See my other note about bean counters asnd truncation. I've no doubt that a black budget organization could afford all that disk space :-) -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org