New John the Ripper Cracks Passwords On FPGAs

'Long-time Slashdot reader solardiz has long bring an advocate for
bringing security to open environments. Wednesday he contacted
Slashdot to share this update about a piece of software he's authored
called John the Ripper:

John the Ripper is the oldest still evolving password cracker program
(and Open Source project), first released in 1996. John the Ripper
1.9.0-jumbo-1, which has just been announced with a lengthy list of
changes, is the first release to include FPGA support (in addition to
CPU, GPU, and Xeon Phi). This is a long-awaited (or long-delayed)
major release, encompassing 4.5 years of development and 6000+ commits
by 80+ contributors. From the announcement:

"Added FPGA support for 7 hash types for ZTEX 1.15y boards [...] we
support: bcrypt, descrypt (including its bigcrypt extension),
sha512crypt & Drupal7, sha256crypt, md5crypt (including its Apache
apr1 and AIX smd5 variations) & phpass. As far as we're aware, several
of these are implemented on FPGA for the very first time. For bcrypt,
our ~119k c/s at cost 5 in ~27W greatly outperforms latest high-end
GPUs per board, per dollar, and per Watt. [...] We also support
multi-board clusters (tested [...] for up to 16 boards, thus 64 FPGAs,
[...] on a Raspberry Pi 2 host)'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/05/18/1841245

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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