01-23-2018, 10:06 PM
Hi !
I see hashcat is the one of rare tools using GPU horsepower to speedup cracking passwords but my intention is a bit different. I'm searching for tool that can use GPUs but for hash generation (SHA-256 - has type 1400 by https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes) not password cracking.
My use case would be scan a ton of archive files and compare the duplicates much faster using GPUs than CPUs.
Current benchmarking proves a i7 type CPU can't saturate more that 1-2GBit/s bandwidth on this task on any type of files (even 100GB each running parallel 16 threads) but testing hashcat on my Dell XPS 15 laptop with a week GT 750M is already 25% faster than the CPU and me having a local and network storage that is ~ 1GB/s (8Gbit/s) capable I would use the GPUs for the task as that would limit the need for so many workstations to do the work.
Looking at the docs and features I see hashcat is capable of multitasking and even multi node setups but what it would take to add this mode to the feature set in near future ?
Thanks !
Best regards,
I see hashcat is the one of rare tools using GPU horsepower to speedup cracking passwords but my intention is a bit different. I'm searching for tool that can use GPUs but for hash generation (SHA-256 - has type 1400 by https://hashcat.net/wiki/doku.php?id=example_hashes) not password cracking.
My use case would be scan a ton of archive files and compare the duplicates much faster using GPUs than CPUs.
Current benchmarking proves a i7 type CPU can't saturate more that 1-2GBit/s bandwidth on this task on any type of files (even 100GB each running parallel 16 threads) but testing hashcat on my Dell XPS 15 laptop with a week GT 750M is already 25% faster than the CPU and me having a local and network storage that is ~ 1GB/s (8Gbit/s) capable I would use the GPUs for the task as that would limit the need for so many workstations to do the work.
Looking at the docs and features I see hashcat is capable of multitasking and even multi node setups but what it would take to add this mode to the feature set in near future ?
Thanks !
Best regards,