* Posts by Bamsemums

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German 'hacker' uses rented computing to crack hashing algorithm

Bamsemums
Linux

not really, no..

Actually, it proves that you can do an exhaustive search of all possible 6-char permutations in 49minutes using a set of fermi chips. As far as I can see, this is a bruteforce attack on the *passwords*, not directly on SHA1