Archives for October, 2007

Plasma TV components applied to password cracking

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  • October 11, 2007

Forget networked PCs or even PlayStation 3s, components commonly found in plasma TVs are the latest thing in password cracking tools.
High performance FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chips are the Chuck Norris of number crunching, equally suited to image processing and (with a bit of modification) password cracking.
During the Black Hat conference in Washington in [...]