Hello everyone:
Sorry about my poor english, this is my first post
I am an undergraduate student, recently my professor ask me to decrypt md5crypt, I found that oclHashcat is a good choose, My hardware is Tesla M2090, Xeon E5-2670, and it works well with oclHashcat, it can reach about 930kH/s
But my professor ask me to decrypt on a FPGA board, he thinks it will be much faster, so I asked some teachers who are majored in FPGA for help, they told me that they think it's very hard, First of all, find a useful FPGA is a big problem, but they are not familiar with decryption.
Here are my questions.
1. Is FPGA really much faster than GPU? my professor only cares about speed
2. If FPGA is faster, can oclHashcat run on an FPGA? or I need to decrypt from scratch ? I know that oclHashcat-3.0 support OpenCL devices, but I don't know what it means, can it work with FPGA well ?
3. If FPGA is faster, any suggest FPGA boards that works well with oclHashcat? ex: PCIe, large memory... i am not sure about what feature oclHashcat needs?
Thanks
Sorry about my poor english, this is my first post
I am an undergraduate student, recently my professor ask me to decrypt md5crypt, I found that oclHashcat is a good choose, My hardware is Tesla M2090, Xeon E5-2670, and it works well with oclHashcat, it can reach about 930kH/s
But my professor ask me to decrypt on a FPGA board, he thinks it will be much faster, so I asked some teachers who are majored in FPGA for help, they told me that they think it's very hard, First of all, find a useful FPGA is a big problem, but they are not familiar with decryption.
Here are my questions.
1. Is FPGA really much faster than GPU? my professor only cares about speed
2. If FPGA is faster, can oclHashcat run on an FPGA? or I need to decrypt from scratch ? I know that oclHashcat-3.0 support OpenCL devices, but I don't know what it means, can it work with FPGA well ?
3. If FPGA is faster, any suggest FPGA boards that works well with oclHashcat? ex: PCIe, large memory... i am not sure about what feature oclHashcat needs?
Thanks