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New Zealand security researcher Nick Breese thinks the PS3 is just about the best thing ever when it comes to cracking passwords.
Turns out that fancy Cell processor is really good at brute force password cracking.
He points out that most passwords are still safe because they have additional security measures, but for things like .zip and .pdf files... man a PS3 could crack that thing in like a few days.
"It'll speed up the attacks but I can't see that it's broken," Nick said. "(It) is still safe because the people implementing the ciphers foresaw CPU power rapidly increasing."
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Turns out that fancy Cell processor is really good at brute force password cracking.
He points out that most passwords are still safe because they have additional security measures, but for things like .zip and .pdf files... man a PS3 could crack that thing in like a few days.
"It'll speed up the attacks but I can't see that it's broken," Nick said. "(It) is still safe because the people implementing the ciphers foresaw CPU power rapidly increasing."
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