The Death Throes of crypt() 388
dex writes "Tom Perrine and Devin Kowatch of the San Diego Supercomputer Center have issued "Teracrack:
Password cracking using TeraFLOP and PetaByte Resources" (PDF, HTML version via Google). Using SDSC's
prodigious computing facilities, they precomputed 207 billion crypt() hashes in
80 minutes."
But... (Score:5, Funny)
Definately cool though for proof of concept!
Need more power (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Need more power (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously we just are not using enough power.
Yup, if they ran this on the 220-230V systems in Europe this would have taken only 40 minutes.
Re:A testament to crypt() (Score:5, Funny)
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
The most secure piece of code, even on Microsoft(r) Windows(tm) platforms.
I've also got a question; What is the default/general password encryption scheme used in most GNU/Linux distributions? DES? Is DES an algorithm or a collection or interface or something... I don't know anything
I did write a program that worked exactly as crypt did though, it included certain unspoken functions from -lcrypt, especially one named crypt.
Re:Need better crypto (Score:2, Funny)
Proof that this was MEANT to happen! :-P (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly, crypt() was meant to die: just look at its name!
As Schneier says on the first page of Chapter 1 of "Applied Cryptography",
ftp site seems slow (Score:5, Funny)
Anyone have a bit torrent for this thing?
Re:crypt() not necessarily the crypt algorithm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Need more power (Score:2, Funny)
Too Late (Score:5, Funny)
Time to crack some pr0n passwords...
they fear the /. effect (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Perhaps not (Score:2, Funny)
- If I understand the article correctly, they're using serious computer power to develop a database of all passwords and their resulting hashes.
Look for it on eBay. Coming soon, to a 733t h4x0r near you!How are they storing the results? (Score:1, Funny)
are they storing it in MySQL or Postgres???
Re:A testament to crypt() (Score:2, Funny)
Who cares? Its not like anybody is running anything critical on it.
That's what Windows 98se is for...
Re:So much for longer passwords being more secure? (Score:5, Funny)
That's what I like to see... (Score:5, Funny)
I am going to go convert two of my physical binary decision devices into a cup of coffee.
Re:Need more power (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A testament to crypt() (Score:5, Funny)
Haha! Now it's a denial of service algorithm! Bet you wish you had
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now, eh?
"Physical Binary Decision Device" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Proof that this was MEANT to happen! :-P (Score:2, Funny)
Were all the original unix inventors Goths?
Re:"Physical Binary Decision Device" (Score:3, Funny)
Encryption and Big Brother (Score:2, Funny)
Its stories like this that remind us that Big Brother would chew through any encryption a user might have.
"Oh, 2048 bits? *yawn* We'll have the results for you in a month."
Re:A testament to crypt() (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Proof that this was MEANT to happen! :-P (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Perhaps not (Score:3, Funny)
Dying (Score:2, Funny)
Or even easier... (Score:2, Funny)