How Team Insidepro 2011 cracked 88,546 hashes in 48 hours at DEFCON2011(contest.korelogic.com)

20 pointsby packetlssvor 15 Jahren3 comments

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How Team Insidepro 2011 cracked 88,546 hashes in 48 hours at DEFCON2011

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I am extremely surprised that cloud servers did not play a bigger part here. This Is What They're Perfect For: renting the equivalent of enormous datacenters for a brief period without much notice or prior/post capital investment. Password/hash cracking has always struck me as the archetypal use of Amazon/Rackspace/Linode/etc.

porkvor 15 Jahren

FWIW, you don't "crack" cryptographic hashes, you just find a valid preimage, of which there are infinitely many.

rgovostesvor 15 Jahren

Perhaps not, but you crack passwords, which is what the title probably implies. The OP's usage is universally understood in the industry.