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Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour


A GeForce RTX 4090 could be cracking your password at this moment.

The only way sound way is to go down the ChatGPT route, but that implies you have a ton of cash to rent AI graphics card clusters to carry out your evil deeds. For starters, Hive Systems' research assumes that hackers have access to the hash, for example, from significant data breaches, such as the HaveIBeenPwned or LastPass. Even an eight-character NIST-compliant password can be challenging to crack if the service provider maintains good security practices and is up-to-date on the latest hashing algorithms.

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