[HH] FPGA password cracking supercomputer

[Kurt Keville]

Picocomputing? Damn, where did femto go?

There have been FPGA implementations that do this around for awhile... we did one one year for
https://sites.google.com/site/sc10scc/scc-applications/password-recovery
It was a similar challenge; and quite an exercise in parallelization

I suspect it is an unwinnable fight... just wait until Quantum Computing hits the streets though... you find one solution, you have found all solutions (or so I'm told).

On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Tom Metro wrote:

> Here's a creative, if ethically questionable, application for FPGAs.
> -Tom
> 
> Cloud service cracks VPN passwords in 24 hours
> http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Cloud-service-cracks-VPN-passwords-in-24-hours-1656104.html
> 
>  At the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, encryption expert
>  Moxie Marlinspike promised that his CloudCracker web service was able
>  to crack any VPN or WiFi connection secured using MS-CHAPv2 within 24
>  hours. The cost? Around $200.
>  [...]
>  With the help of a company called Picocomputing, Marlinspike has
>  developed a processing server which is able to test 18 billion keys
>  per second - a feat which would normally require 80,000 CPUs. The
>  server is equipped with 48 programmable processing units known as
>  field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Each FPGA is programmed to
>  provide 40 parallel processing units, each with a clock speed of 450
>  MHz, for cracking DES.
> 
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