FPGA solutions for hashcat
#1
I previously modified the bitcoin miner (cpuminer-opt) to send mining jobs to FPGA for mining via UDP. The actual application is at the following URL.
https://youtu.be/-N4ToWqyLCA

I am considering rebuilding this process in hashcat for FPGA password cracking.
What I want to ask is, is there a demand for this kind of application? Is it worth investing my time in doing it?


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#2
If your FPGAs support OpenCL, which is very rare, Hashcat may work with the FPGAs but it's extremely unlikely that it'll just be plug-and-play, even if they do support it. Most likely you'd end up just making your own hash cracker and not using Hashcat directly
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#3
What do you need to do to make hashcat run on a FPGA?
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#4
(09-27-2024, 02:57 AM)Handel Wrote: What do you need to do to make hashcat run on a FPGA?

There are no officially supported FPGAs but theoretically, any FPGA that runs OpenCL should be able to run Hashcat but there is 0 FPGA-specific code in Hashcat so it may not work at all
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#5
I'm totally new to hashcat. I downloaded the code and I'm running it with the hashcat command. Is what I am running OpenCL?
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