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PCworld.com: Hacker Uses Sony PlayStation 3 to Crack Passwords

Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords, using a PS3. By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10--15 million cycles per second -- in Intel-based architecture -- up to 1.4 billion cycles per second.

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Submitted by: RealiTCE
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From: Iatchi on 04-Dec-2007 at 03:43am

And people thought PS3's were week and not worth 600$...

now we know they arnt week, and still arn't worth 600$! :D


From: MikeB on 02-Dec-2007 at 01:59am

:O
thats scary to think of people being able to hack stuff that fast


From: Xhorror on 01-Dec-2007 at 11:33pm

wow, thats insane

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