Breaking GPUs: When Is A Hash Not Just A Single Hash?
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2 min readNov 25, 2021
Password hashes can be cracked with GPUs. How? Because GPUs have multiple cores, and each core can be used to split a hashing task up. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, for example, has over 8,700 cores. Thus if it takes 8,700 days to crack a hash, we could crack it in just a day with a single GeForce RTX 3080 GPU. If we add more GPUs we can cut it down each more.
