Is there any benefit to using a GPU powered miner over a computer/server
with multiple GPUs given that they are both running oclhashcat?


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:34 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]>wrote:

> I should probably clarify that to say, yes you can but the fruits of your
> effort are going to be directly proportional to the keyspace, hashing
> method and plan of attack used.
>
> For instance if you just want to check a users password against a
> dictionary or you want to quickly build a rainbow table it's great.
> However if you're trying to recover 1 specific key given 1 specific SHA256
> hash, you can do it, but the sun will burn out long before you hit your
> target.
>
>
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:31 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Yes you can.  Where did you find a 10GH/s miner though?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Daniel <[email protected]> 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
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