<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Picocomputing? Damn, where did femto go?</div><div><br></div><div>There have been FPGA implementations that do this around for awhile... we did one one year for</div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/sc10scc/scc-applications/password-recovery">https://sites.google.com/site/sc10scc/scc-applications/password-recovery</a></div><div>It was a similar challenge; and quite an exercise in parallelization</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect it is an unwinnable fight... just wait until Quantum Computing hits the streets though... you find one solution, you have found all solutions (or so I'm told).</div><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Tom Metro wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Here's a creative, if ethically questionable, application for FPGAs.<br> -Tom<br><br>Cloud service cracks VPN passwords in 24 hours<br><a href="http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Cloud-service-cracks-VPN-passwords-in-24-hours-1656104.html">http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Cloud-service-cracks-VPN-passwords-in-24-hours-1656104.html</a><br><br> At the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, encryption expert<br> Moxie Marlinspike promised that his CloudCracker web service was able<br> to crack any VPN or WiFi connection secured using MS-CHAPv2 within 24<br> hours. The cost? Around $200.<br> [...]<br> With the help of a company called Picocomputing, Marlinspike has<br> developed a processing server which is able to test 18 billion keys<br> per second - a feat which would normally require 80,000 CPUs. The<br> server is equipped with 48 programmable processing units known as<br> field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). Each FPGA is programmed to<br> provide 40 parallel processing units, each with a clock speed of 450<br> MHz, for cracking DES.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Hardwarehacking mailing list<br>Hardwarehacking@blu.org<br>http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>