News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs. Parent comment

Re:Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs by Tostino on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:11AM (#14552829)
That 57 years is assuming they're storing their passwords MD5 hashed, with a salt (hah, i'm sure they thought of that if they're using MD5), and using the least efficient method possible to crack the passwords.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs by tracker1 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @07:07PM (#14556742)
It also assumes only a single system... not a cluster of several hundred or thousands. It also assumes no weaknesses in the algorithm itself that may be mitigated.
[ Parent | on HN ]