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Re:What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bl... by aidenn0 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:17PM (#20529148)
It's what about an hour to calculate the SHA of all 10 digit numbers in the US?
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Re:What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bl... by bristleworm on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:40AM (#20533063)
I was curious: my Laptop needed 18 minutes.
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Re:What an attacker gets from Apple devices if they sniff Bl... by aidenn0 on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:06PM (#20536899)
haha, I checked my source and I had the units wrong so I was off by a factor of 1000. Looks like 8x GTX1080s can do almost 3 billion SHA256 hashes per second, so you could just brute force these with no table with the right hardware.
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