Want to Crack a Password with your Playstation 3?

Posted by admin on November 29th, 2007 filed in Cryptanalysis (kryptós analýein), digital forensics

This article details how Senior Security Consultant Nick Breese of Security-assessment.com developed a method for utilizing a PlayStation 3 (ps3) to crack passwords. Using vector computing, he has increased the amount of cycles per second from 10-15 million to 1.4 billion. That’s approximately 93% more cycles per second.

 Just as I commented in this blog regarding a similar method of cryptanalysis, “In theory, any password can be broken; it’s just a matter of time when employing the correct methodology.”

 Personally, I’m excited see this project through fruition.


One Response to “Want to Crack a Password with your Playstation 3?”

  1. Matt Says:
    December 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    The Cell powered PS3 rules for this kind of thing. Too bad it’s very hard to develop software for.

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