Breaking Passwords on Alder Lake CPUs

In Alder Lake, Intel introduced hybrid architecture. Large, hyperthreading-enabled Performance cores are complemented with smaller, single-thread Efficiency cores. The host OS is responsible for assigning threads to one core or another. We discovered that Windows 10 scheduler is not doing a perfect job when it comes to password recovery, which requires a careful approach to thread scheduling.

👉 https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/05/breaking-passwords-on-alder-lake-cpus/

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