02-10-2013, 12:38 PM
the problem with asics is that they are, by definition, application-specific. bitcoin asics will only work for bitcoin, and nothing else. well, you could attempt to use them for password cracking, but you would only be able to crack passwords that were exactly 80 characters long and hashed as double SHA256. so, virtually worthless for anything but bitcoin.
by the same token, building asics specifically for password cracking would be a huge waste of time and money. and to make an asic that was flexible enough to handle multiple hashes, multiple algorithms, and multiple attack modes, you'd essentially just end up with a gpu.
by the same token, building asics specifically for password cracking would be a huge waste of time and money. and to make an asic that was flexible enough to handle multiple hashes, multiple algorithms, and multiple attack modes, you'd essentially just end up with a gpu.