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PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords
Topic: Technology 4:22 pm EST, Nov 29, 2007

Using a PS3, a senior security consultant has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking 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.

Breese, who has been working on the project, called "Crackstation", for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research.

Breese says the initial reason for embarking on the research project was to get the company to buy him a PS3.

This is exactly why Bryan and I hacked the iPhone , only Caleb got to keep the phone :-(

PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords



 
 
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