Possibly. ASIC's and FPGA's not so much, since they are specifically tailored to the Bitcoin way of hashing. I believe it's SHA256 with 2000 iterations. I'm not 100% sure that you couldn't change them to 1 or 10000 iterations of SHA256, but I doubt you would be able to go to MD5 or SHA1.
As for GPU powered miners, yes. oclHashcat exists and does almost exactly that. On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 13:29:58 Daniel wrote: > With all this talk of Mhash/s for bitcoin mining ( I am not a miner nor > owner of bitcoins ) could you repurpose a bitcoin miner that does 10,000 > Mhash/s and use it to crack passwords? > > -Daniel > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Jessie A. Morris 801-210-1526 [email protected] /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
