Dr. Michael Pound, a computer science researcher and professor at the University of Nottingham, uses hashcat and 4 GPUs in parallel to go through 1o billion hashes a second in this Computerphile video. He calls his deep-learning server the "Beast." If you're new to cracking passwords, he does a great job breaking down the process of what's going on as hashcat does its magic.
'Beast' Cracks Billions of Passwords in Seconds
Jul 15, 2016 06:37 PM
Jul 15, 2016 06:38 PM
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