Too much has changed in computer security by now, however the power of today’s conventional computers is not enough for many challenging tasks. Password auditing and forensic analysis require much computation to be carried out. This leads to building large and expensive clusters which are difficult to set up and manage and which consume lot of energy – bad choice and eco-ineffective.
Now we have got a great alternative: innovative technologies based on graphic cards implementation that allow for higher performance and lower power consumption. GPU computation virtually opens new computer security reality. For example, you can audit the security of your network encrypted with WPA/WPA2.
This will be shown in practice. You will also learn the inside-outs of password protection to escape false sense of security later on and hear our blitz report on common password policy errors.
2. Who may need
Password Recovery?
Ordinary users (own passwords)
IT Departments (employee’s passwords)
Security auditors, consultants and
penetration testers
Law enforcement & government
Hackers usually don’t!
3. Why speed counts?
Users and IT Departments:
«We needed those passwords
yesterday»
Auditors, consultants
and pentesters:
«Time is Money»
4. How to increase speed?
Traditional way is to network together
many computers to form a cluster
• Communication
overhead
• Difficult to manage
• Not power-efficient
26. • Use password manager
• Don’t use pronounceable word as
password
• Use random set of (at least) lowercase
and uppercase letters and digits as
password
• Windows: use passwords of at least 10
characters long
• Change your passwords regularly
• Review password policy regularly
28. Greener Computing
• Consider a cluster of 25
dual-CPU quad-core
computers
• 400 watts full load each
• 10’000 watts total
29. Greener Computing
• Two Tesla S1070 provide
same performance
• 800 watts full load each
• One computer for
management
• 2’000 watts total
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32. Greener Computing
• 8’000 watts saved
• 49’090 kWh a year (at 70% utilization)
• £3’436 savings on electricity a year
(at 7p per kWh average rate)
• Prevents 27’500 kg CO2 emission
• Takes 5 cars off the road
• Saves 2’300 trees/year