Accelerating Password Recovery: GPU Acceleration, Distributed and Cloud Attacks

Modern encryption tools employ strong encryption with multiple hash iterations, making passwords extremely difficult to break. The November article “What is password recovery and how it is different from password cracking” explains the differences between instantly accessing protected information and attempting to break the original plain-text password. In that article, I briefly mentioned GPU acceleration and distributed attacks as methods to speed up the recovery. In this article, I’ll discuss the two acceleration techniques in more detail.

Why do we need GPU acceleration?
Literally, we need GPU acceleration to break passwords faster. How much faster, exactly, depends on several things...

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2020/04/accelerating-password-recovery-gpu-acceleration-distributed-and-cloud-attacks/

By Oleg Afonin

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