Shrine Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 So once upon a time I bought a Butterfly Labs 600 GH/S miner. I was thinking, Is there a way I can use all that number crunching power to crack hashes or even to brute force? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 People have thought of this idea for a long time now but they are called Application Specific Integrated Circuits for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrine Posted December 12, 2015 Author Share Posted December 12, 2015 People have thought of this idea for a long time now but they are called Application Specific Integrated Circuits for a reason. So, could it be possible to write an application that would work with the chip? you mean there are sever different applications that i had used with that chip so what if you were to write aan application that instead of connecting it to the mining server it would connect it to a local workstation and you could harness the power that way? Set up your own "Bitcoin mining(Number Crunching)" server on your network, then you could send the hash to the workstation that is running the miners and you could crack your hash that way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vailixi Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 You could use it to crack unsalted sha256. Or mine another cryptocurrency that uses sha256 for future investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 One question is if it's really an ASIC, or a preprogrammed FPGA. If it's an FPGA you could chuck in a new design and have something else, but there's a reason FPGA programmers are paid as well as they are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrine Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 One question is if it's really an ASIC, or a preprogrammed FPGA. If it's an FPGA you could chuck in a new design and have something else, but there's a reason FPGA programmers are paid as well as they are... Interesting thought, so are you seggesting that you could maybe flash a custom firmware on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Indeed I am. I found this github repo for their device which was referenced by this ARS article so it would suggest that it's at least possible. But where you get those firmwares and/or how hard/easy it would be to get one on there and actively mining, I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrine Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 Indeed I am. I found this github repo for their device which was referenced by this ARS article so it would suggest that it's at least possible. But where you get those firmwares and/or how hard/easy it would be to get one on there and actively mining, I have no idea. So Cooper, To look at it from another prespective what if you hosted your own kinda bitcoin network. Use the same software with the bitcoin miner just connect it to your own serever. It will turn cracking password hashes into a 10 seccond activity... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I understand the appeal, but getting there is another story. Did you ever try to program an FPGA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrine Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 I understand the appeal, but getting there is another story. Did you ever try to program an FPGA? No, This miner is an ASIC chip so the only way to do it would to wright a program for it to use. The back story is I have been trying to crack a password hash for about 6 days with no luck and the bitcoin miner would probably do the same work about a million tomes faster than a cpu since the miner is made specificly to crunch numbers while the password is not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 No, This miner is an ASIC chip so the only way to do it would to wright a program for it to use. The back story is I have been trying to crack a password hash for about 6 days with no luck and the bitcoin miner would probably do the same work about a million tomes faster than a cpu since the miner is made specificly to crunch numbers while the password is not. The problem is that particular miner is programed to do bitcoin math, which is nothing like password hashing. You would be better off selling the miner on ebay and using the funds to buy a couple high end nvidia video cards to use for oclhashcat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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