The A5/1 team are not the only ones on to the more or less blindingly obvious:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/password_cracking_on_crack/ Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible. After optimising its rainbow tables of password hashes to make use of SSDs Swiss security firm Objectif Sécurité was able to crack 14-digit WinXP passwords with special characters in just 5.3 seconds. Objectif Sécurité's Philippe Oechslin told Heise Security that the result was 100 times faster than possible with their old 8GB Rainbow Tables for XP hashes. ... F _______________________________________________ A51 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lists.reflextor.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51
