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Tests show $30,000 AI GPUs are terrible password crackers

The RTX 5090 is the fastest password-cracking GPU right now ...

Is a $30,000 GPU Good at Password Cracking?

A $30,000 AI GPU doesn't outperform consumer GPUs at password cracking. Specops explains why attackers don't need exotic ...
CoinDesk

Attacking bitcoin mining with a quantum computer would require the energy of a star, academics say

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.
Ars Technica

Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...
financefeeds

Good and Bad Crypto Algorithms Explained Simply

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...
GitHub

Add more cryptographic hash algorithm support

Is your feature request related to a problem? GameMaker currently supports MD5 and SHA1 hash algorithm, but these are weak and already broken. Newer cryptographic hash algorithms (ex: SHA-2 or SHA-3, ...
Biometric Companies

Explainer: What is biometric hashing?

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...
GitHub

feature: Add FIPS compliant hashing algorithm SHA256

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The library utilizes MD5 for hashing in embeddings cache and knowledge base. In embeddings cache: The library utilizes two hash key ...