AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by elliottcarlson on Monday November 25, 2013 @01:50PM (#6796033)

ASIC - or Application Specific Integrated Circuit - is one purpose only - so unless the exact thing being accomplished is sha256(sha256(x)), then it can't be repurposed - this even limits its use as a password cracking machine unless the password is encrypted using that specific routine.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by nwh on Monday November 25, 2013 @01:55PM (#6796083)

No, they can't crack passwords. They increment a nonce at the end of a supplied string and only return if the nonce results in a low hash. They're not a generic "fast SHA" device like you're thinking.

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Re:AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility by elliottcarlson on Monday November 25, 2013 @02:02PM (#6796124)

You're right - forgot about the nonce - either way, they are even more application specific and really have no other use.

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