Graphics hardware as password cracker
October 24th, 2007 by admin
Cheap, off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is being used to crack computer passwords and now Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. “It takes advantage of the ‘massively parallel processing’ capabilities of a graphics processing unit (GPU) the processor normally used to produce realistic graphics for video games,” says New […]
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