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stacksmashing is a personal blog at stacksmashing.net about security and systems. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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  1. Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-11-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. 16s · 2010-11-16
    The sha1 hashes he provides are super weak. I can crack half of them in less than 30 seconds on my CPU with my software (16crack). Hardly material for a GPU: EF8420D70DD7676E04BEA55F405FA39B022A90C8 "Password!" 5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8 "password" A9993E364706816ABA3E25717850C26C9CD0D89D "abc" 1902E3D6FC4E78A0BCC50BA12B882769AFBF4A8C "bad" 8F2005004F8BAA7A1090A9BF3B03C48D38E78157 "P4s$" CD3724AC400340…

    Comment linking /blogfiles/2010_11_15/sha1_hashes.txt

    on “Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances”
  2. ssclafani · 2010-11-15

    Submitted Cracking Passwords In The Cloud: Amazon’s New EC2 GPU Instances as a story · 199 points

    HN discussion
  3. goldenthunder · 2010-11-19
    For anyone that wants to try this out, here is the 'german guy's post on the matter: http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-am...

    Comment linking /2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/

    on “German Brute Forces SHA1 in 49 Minutes for $2 ”
  4. mxey · 2012-08-11

    Submitted Dear Flask, Please Fix Your “Secure” Cookies as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  5. andrewjshults · 2010-12-14
    If we take encrypt to mean hash (which is probably what the implementation would most likely mean), this still has the same problem that server-side hashing does. Hashing is fast, GPUs can burn through creating rainbow tables at incredible speed (see http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-am... ). Now if it's talking about implementing bcrypt ( http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ )…

    Comment linking /2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-amazons-new-ec2-gpu-instances/

    on “HTML meet type="pSecure"”
  6. nezza-_- · 2012-09-02

    Submitted How my mom "hacked" my phone. as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  7. nezza-_- · 2012-08-28

    Submitted Startups: Are shares still a valuable "payment"? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. nezza-_- · 2012-08-27

    Submitted Why bootloaders are locked down on modern smartphones as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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