Re: Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-14 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi David Vedaal and everyone This is something even I have thought: this seems to be a sure way to prevent such computing from being able to 'guess' the password. Why is then, parallel computing being haled as the antidote to privacy? Regards Hardeep Singh http://blog.Hardeep.name Sent from Delhi

Re: Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-04 Thread David Shaw
On Nov 4, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Josselin Jacquard wrote: Yes but you're supposed to pay to use ressource on a cloud system arn't you ? Is it usable computing for free ? Of course not. Where did anyone say it was free? I said "The nice thing about cloud password guessing is it enables people t

Re: Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-04 Thread Josselin Jacquard
Yes but you're supposed to pay to use ressource on a cloud system arn't you ? Is it usable computing for free ? 2009/11/4 David Shaw > http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html > > This is not, of course, an OpenPGP "crack", but rather high-speed password > guessin

Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-04 Thread David Shaw
http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html This is not, of course, an OpenPGP "crack", but rather high-speed password guessing. The nice thing about cloud password guessing is it enables people to spin up massive cracking farms without actually having to manag