On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:13:34PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:

Hmm ... would this speed up a dictionary attack?

Not really.  It appears to only handle a single encryption stream, and
doesn't do it a lot faster than a modern CPU does.  It's real advantage is
that the main CPU can be doing something else at the time.

For dictionary attacks, you really need specialized hardware that can do a
large number of ciphers in parallel.

David


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