Last month I wrote a column in which I discussed my attempts at cracking passwords in a lab environment. I had intended for the blog post to be a thought exercise. I constantly hear people ...

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The hash function is a function that can convert a character string to another character string, and it is possible to calculate the character string after conversion from the character string before ...

Common password encryption formats used by programs such as Microsoft’s LAN Manager have, since the mid-1990s, been vulnerable to brute force attacks like the infamous l0phtcrack. A brute force attack ...

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Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...

I've completed the basic code for a GPU-accelerated rainbow tables implementation.<BR><BR>To scale it up to the desired level, I need a /lot/ of computation power. On the order of 100s of GPU-years ...