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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/10B96ACD-26FE-4D77-BB89-7695172BD155 | ||
| Year | 2009 | ||
| Type of Item | Conference Full Paper | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | C. Manifavas, I. Papaefstathiou, K. Theoharoulis, "HighEnd Reconfigurable Systems for Fast Windows' Password Cracking," in 17th IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2009, pp. 287 - 290. doi: 10.1109/FCCM.2009.48 https://doi.org/10.1109/FCCM.2009.48 | ||
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One of the most efficient methods for cracking passwords is the one based on ldquorainbow tablesrdquo; those lookup tables are offering an almost optimal time-memory tradeoff in the process of recovering the plaintext password from a password hash generated by a cryptographic hash function. In this paper, we demonstrate the first known system, implemented in a state-of-the-art reconfigurable device that cracks passwords up to 1000 times faster than the software approach. This is achieved by using a highly parallel architecture employing a fine-grained pipeline.
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