Please Add Password Cracking to GPU Bench

[davecason]

Anandtech has a real opportunity to help business users pick the best possible hardware for cracking passwords. Business and Cyber Security users often leverage hardware solutions to determine the passwords for office documents and malware-related archives. Adding OpenCL-type password cracking software to the benchmark suite and using it to test single and multi-card configurations would be a great test for highly parallelized workloads AND give business users a sense of which cards to choose for their cracking rigs.

I suggest two packages for testing including something free and something for commercial purchase. Examples:
Free - Hashcat http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/
Commercial - Elcomsoft http://www.elcomsoft.com/eprb.html

 

[KeithTalent]

Hi Dave, we have nothing to do with the main site here. I recommend you go to the main http://anandtech.com/ site and contact someone there. You can find the contact information of anyone by going to one of their articles.

Good luck.

KT