[NBLUG/talk] Uses for GPGPU?

Steve Johnson fratm at adnd.com
Wed Jan 14 15:17:56 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aaron Grattafiori <
aaron at digitalinfinity.net> wrote:

> Yep. Cracking Encryption and finding MD5 collisions :)
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081013-company-puts-nvida-gpus-to-work-cracking-wireless-security.html
>
> http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/11/graphics-cards-the-next-big-thing-for-password-cracking/
> http://bvernoux.free.fr/md5/index.php
> http://somken.com/images/md5_crack1billion.jpg <- GPU is _MUCH_ faster.
>
> I don't know if its "popular" yet but.. it sure is cool and I hope for
> more open source tools for utilizing your GPU's vector tweaked mhz.
>
> -Aaron
>
> ps. Awesome work Jake (and team) on the SSL certs w/ MD5



I wonder if a port of seti at home would be good for this.

-Steve
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