Ilya Levin wrote:
I'm not affiliated with Elcomsoft and don't know their real
intentions, but what they are trying to do is perfectly reasonable.
Once they release a commercial product with such feature it is only a
matter of time until Microsoft or some other patent troll will run for
a
On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
I hope they don't get the patent. The idea of using a GPU for
cryptographic calculations isn't new; see, for example, Remotely
Keyed
Cryptographics: Secure Remote Display Access Using (Mostly) Untrusted
Hardware
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Subject: RE: Elcomsoft trying to patent faster GPU-based password cracker
ROTFL.
When SGI's stealth DES Challenge project was underway in 1997, it's main
client ran on the host's (MIPS) CPU(s), implemented with a variant of Eli
Biham's bit-slice DES implementation. The 64-bit 195MHz R1 could do
