Elcomsoft has a product that uses GPUs to do password-cracking on a variety of media. They claim a speed-up of up to 67x, depending on the application being attacked.
http://www.elcomsoft.com/edpr.html?r1=pr&r2=wpa (This has led to a variety of stories (see, for example, http://www.scmagazineuk.com/WiFi-is-no-longer-a-viable-secure-connection/article/119294/) claiming that WPA is dead. The correct answer, though, is that passwords are dead, especially bad ones.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
