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GPU Password Recovery Engine |
Modern graphics processing units (GPU) are powerful dedicated
processors, by much outdoing the regular processing units by their
computing power. The parallel architecture of GPU is perfect for the
implementation of brute force attacks for many (but not all)
cryptographic algorithms. This may dramatically speed up the recovery
speed. NVIDIA Corp. has released the CUDA library, which allows
utilizing the power of GPU for computing. For the first time, we
publicly announced GPU Password Recovery Engine in the first version of
Office 2007 Password released on 07/07/2007.
Currently, we offer GPU Password Recovery Engine for the following
algorithms:
- Word 2007
- Excel 2007
- PowerPoint 2007
- OneNote 2007
- Quicken
- MD4 (ASCII and UNICODE, MD4 Unicode is used for Windows passwords
encryption)
- MD5 (ASCII and UNICODE)
- SHA1 (ASCII and UNICODE)
We are planning on expanding the list of supported algorithms; however,
due to peculiarities of the GPU architecture, some algorithms cannot be
effectively implemented on GPU, and the regular implementation of such
algorithms appears to be more effective. As a whole, GPU allows raising the
speed by 5-100 times (depending on the algorithm, GPU and CPU type). Thus,
the best results have been achieved for the MD4 algorithm; the search speed
has reached two billion (!) passwords per second. Excellent results are also
achieved with Office 2007; password protection in Office 2007 is made in a
way that with the regular processing units the search speed remains
extremely low (around 100 passwords per second), which leads to extremely
large time outlays even for not too long passwords. With GPU Password
Recovery Engine, the search speed reaches several thousands of passwords per
second, significantly raising the chance to find the password within
reasonable time.
We are also planning on supporting graphics processing units manufactured
by ATI; however, the release of the ATI edition is delayed due to errors in
ATI FireStream SDK. We have also implemented Password Recovery Engine for
Cell processor (Sony PlayStation 3); more information is available on
request.
In order to use GPU:
- Make sure you have the supported hardware. Currently, we support
NVIDIA GPU cards (GeForce 8600 or newer). You can find the list of
graphics processing units supporting the CUDA technology here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html . Please keep
in mind that although the older video cards (GeForce 8400 and lower) do
support CUDA and can be utilized for the recovery, they do not provide a
noticeable growth of the productivity. Their results can be even poorer
than when using CPU. Best results can be obtained with top video cards
with the greatest number of stream processors. If the system has two or
three video cards, GPU Password Recovery Engine will utilize them all
(the SLI connection between the video cards here is not mandatory).
However, the core number in the CPU must be not less than the number of
video cards in the system; thus, in a system with three video cards, the
CPU must have three or four cores. At the same time, some video cards
(for instance, GeForce 9800x2) are technically twin cards (two in one),
and servicing such card requires a dual-core processor.
- Make sure you have got the latest version of display driver. Make
sure that in your system you've got the NVIDIA of version not lower than
162.10. You can download the latest version of the driver free of charge
from the NVIDIA website.
- Download and install GPU Password Recovery Engine. GPU Password
Recovery Engine works as a helper to our password recovery software.
- GPU Password Recovery Engine works as a helper to our password
recovery software. The following our applications support GPU Password
Recovery Engine (please check the version; the older versions do not
support GPU Password Recovery):
- OctoPASS Distributed Password Recovery System - starting from
the version 1.0
- Word Password, Excel Password, PowerPoint Password - starting
from the version 12.0 (will be released soon)
- MD4 Password v1.0
- MD5 Password v3.0 (will be released soon)
- SHA1 Password v3.0 (will be released soon)
You can download the demo version of GPU Password Recovery Engine
here. The DEMO version supports MD4 algorithm only. You can use
it with our free MD4 Password software.
Licensing
You can get GPU Password Recovery Engine free of charge if you buy
any of our aforementioned software that supports GPU Password Recovery.
Notes:
- If you have several video cards in your system, our software will
use all available video cards. This boosts the performance significantly.
SLI video cards connection is not required!
- GPU Password Recovery Engine may work slowly on short passwords; the
top speed is reached on long passwords (when it's actually necessary).
- When GPU is used for computing, the video card stops working for its
normal purpose, and the picture on the monitor "freezes".
To let you use the computer further on, GPU Password Recovery Engine
releases the video card several times per second. This leads to some
fall back but allows using the computer during a brute force attack
for other purposes. Nevertheless, some delays and operation inconveniences
are possible. During a brute force attack with GPU Password Recovery
Engine, please don't run games and other applications that use graphics
actively.
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