Cracking PGP In the Cloud 167
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pariax writes "So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure? Electric Alchemy has published a writeup detailing their experiences cracking PGP ZIP archives using brute force computing power provided by Amazon EC2 and a distributed password cracker from Elcomsoft."
Distrubuted Computing (Score:5, Funny)
If only they'd thought of using distributed computing for the first post, instead of password cracking!
In a word (Score:5, Funny)
So you wanna build your own massively distributed password cracking infrastructure?
No
Re:And tons of carbon enter the air (Score:4, Funny)
How do you know they weren't cracking a PGP'd zip archive containing secret documents about alien protein folding technology?
Re:And tons of carbon enter the air (Score:3, Funny)
Damnit, my password is all vowels again!
Re:Windows, yuck (Score:4, Funny)
What chore that they need to use Windows. For a brute force password guesser, most Slashdotters could write it in 10 lines of perl.
I think ten lines of Perl would be the ideal password somehow.
Re:And tons of carbon enter the air (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pointless (Score:3, Funny)
1995: mail, shopping, and parallel computing.... on The Internet
2009: mail, shopping, and parallel computing .... in The Cloud