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Cracking descrypt - bfhash - 08-28-2015
Currently I'm trying to crack a 8 characters descrypt hash for research purposes.
Assuming upper and lower case, digits from 0-9 and 20 special characters for the password, there would be (26 * 2 + 30)^8 possibilities.
I started calculating and recognized that my laptop would not be very happy with such a task (15000 kH/s -> ~1500 days). Searching a bit I found this Sagitta Brutalis machine (1000 MH/s -> ~24 days). Sadly this thing is too expensive for me.
That's why I am here, is there any way to rent such a server or equivalent systems with similiar cracking speed? Is a FPGA a viable alternative for the task?
I'd also be very glad for other suggestions or hints, thank you.
RE: Cracking descrypt - atom - 08-28-2015
For descrypt, FPGA is defenitely an alternative as they are really good in cracking DES, which is what descrypt bases on. Not sure if there's a cracker out there.
RE: Cracking descrypt - royce - 11-08-2015
Here's one for ZTEX -- source code, but no bitstream.
https://github.com/Gifts/descrypt-ztex-bruteforcer
RE: Cracking descrypt - atom - 11-10-2015
I got those FPGA's (Autor is also organizer of Hashrunner competition and Team Hashcat won it) but I have no clue how to create the bitstreams. Any help would be appreciated as this guy isn't responding to my emails.