{"id":104,"date":"2007-10-24T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themediumtech.com\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/10\/24\/password-cracking-chip-causes-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:50:55","slug":"password-cracking-chip-causes-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Password-cracking chip causes security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'><a href='http:\/\/technology.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn12825&amp;feedId=online-news_rss20'>Password-cracking chip causes security concerns &#8211; tech &#8211; 24 October 2007 &#8211; New Scientist Tech<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community.<\/p>\n<p>Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage of the &#8220;massively parallel processing&#8221; capabilities of a graphics processing unit (GPU) &#8211; the processor normally used to produce realistic graphics for video games.<\/p>\n<p>Using an $800 graphics card from nVidia called the GeForce 8800 Ultra, Elcomsoft increased the speed of its password cracking by a factor of 25, according to the company&#8217;s CEO, Vladimir Katalov.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Password-cracking chip causes security concerns &#8211; tech &#8211; 24 October 2007 &#8211; New Scientist Tech A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}