anode Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 I've sen these FPGA or ASICs used to mine bitcoins. FPGA are FAST, and stacking them kinda makes sense. Now bitcoin is just hash work, so pondering using these 'boxes' to crack PWs and such. Easy, hard, near impossible, or pointless? Quote
dustbyter Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 These FPGA would be able to work to crack passwords. I was interested in purchasing one, but for the price I couldn't afford it. Quote
eovnu87435ds Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) Theoretically, yes, but the downfall is that these devices have code on them that's specifically for bitcoin mining. You would have to modify or write your own code for other uses, and that is no simple task for FPGAs, since everything is done in digital logic rather than a programming language like C, and their performance relies on how efficiently you write your logic. The reason it works for bitcoin is that everything is the same encryption, the same length, etc. You hardly find that with passwords, so for max performance, you need to write different logic sets for different types of passwords and encryption methods Edited April 24, 2013 by eovnu87435ds Quote
anode Posted April 26, 2013 Author Posted April 26, 2013 Oh well. pondered getting one for dual use. Not worth it to me for a single task. Not too interested in learning Verilogic or the like. .....was a thought. Quote
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