While the method of encryption can have a great influence on the difficulty of password cracking, important factors also include the length of the password.<\/p>\n
As the number of characters in the password increases, the time to crack it increases exponentially.<\/p>\n
Hardware is also an important factor, as you would struggle to crack even the simplest hashed passwords with a five-year old CPU – but the same task would be trivial with a powerful quantum computer.<\/p>\n
As stated, graphics cards can be used to crack passwords, but it can be an expensive and time-consuming exercise, depending on the hash type and method used.<\/p>\n
For the sake of this article, the theoretical brute force hashing capabilities of modern graphics cards have been compared below.<\/p>\n
To see how modern graphics cards line up, we compared Hashcat benchmarks from around the Internet to determine which cards are the most proficient at password cracking.<\/p>\n Hashcat<\/a> <\/strong>is an open-source password recovery tool which uses CPU and GPU power to crack passwords and supports a number of algorithms – including MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, and WPA.<\/p>\n There are no official GPU benchmarks available for the Hashcat software, but there are various user tests which outline graphics card performance across various hashing algorithms.<\/p>\n The version of the software used varies across these tests, along with the clock speed and model of graphics card used, leading to variations in hashing power between most benchmarks results.<\/p>\n However, these figures portray a general indication of each graphics card’s hashing performance.<\/p>\n The Hashcat benchmark results for modern graphics cards conducted by Tutorials Technology<\/strong><\/a> for the WPA\/WPA2 security algorithms are shown below.<\/p>\n![\"Titan](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Titan-Xp.jpg\")
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