[ad] BarsWF is basically an MD5 cracking tool and at the moment, is currently the fastest. Right now on nVidia 9600GT/C2D 3Ghz CUDA version does 350 M keys/sec, SSE2 version does 108 M keys/sec. You may check benchmarks of all known good MD5 bruteforcers here. Changes in 0.8 Added checks for errors when calling CUDA […]
Cryptography
THC-ePassports – THC Clones Biometric ePassport – Elvis Presley Passport
[ad] I guess most people have been led to believe this new generation of ePassports or biometric passports are more secure, will help us keep our privacy intact and help us mitigate against identity theft. Well how wrong the propaganda is! THC (famous for their tools and research in security) has just released some technical […]
Hackers Crack London Tube Oyster Card
It just goes to show, having an aluminium lined wallet could really be useful! Hackers in the Netherlands found they could clone an access card using the Mifare chip, after that they traveled to London to try their technique out on the Oyster card (used on the London Underground), which uses the same chip. It […]
That ‘magic’ number
[ad] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 This is everywhere today. Every major news site has this ‘magic’ number in it. Digg.com had stories with more than 24.000 diggs (that’s actually the first time I see that many). In case you’ve been in a cave […]
Let’s Digest Some Messages – md5 Hash Checker for Windows
[ad] Of course it’s a small article about md5… I really wondered how many Micro$oft Windows users check the md5 sum of programs that they download from the internet… Do you really trust that much the mirror websites? Even I could set up a mirror website for any download website and spread malformed packages to […]