Using GPUs to break passwords
2011-01-12 16:32:32.449793+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Whitepixel breaks 28.6 billion password/sec:
This software and hardware combination achieves a rate of 28.6 billion MD5 password hashes tested per second, consumes 1230 Watt at full load, and costs 2700 USD as of December 2010. The capital and operating costs of such a system are only a small fraction of running the same workload on Amazon EC2 GPU instances, as I will detail in this post.