State of the Art Password Cracking

Bombe machine used to crack Enigma ciphertext

While researching my next edition of Elementary Information Security I came a this posting from last January. It comes from the “netmux” web site and describes a $5,000 design for a password hash cracker. It also links to other state of the art cracking gear.

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