Apart from gaming and AI, Hive Systems shows that complex passwords are no match for top GPUs such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
NVIDIA's Modern-Day GPUs Such as The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU Is Capable Of Decrypting Hashed-Passwords, Credits To Their FLOPS Count You can't just go out and get access to anyone's password with your gaming GPUs since it isn't that easy.
Hive Systems uses a hashing mechanism to ensure the integrity of passwords out there. For those unaware, hashing is a security measure that involves transforming passwords into a unique string of characters called a hash.
This ensures that your data doesn't get interpreted by an intruder directly and is a one-way function. Hive Systems measured how long individual GPUs take to decrypt the hashed passwords, and the results disclosed are indeed interesting. Related Story NVIDIA Unveils Revamped ChatRTX With Improved LLM Support, Image Search & Speech RecognitionThis time, Hive Systems decided to use a different hashing algorithm, the bcrypt, which is a superior version of what the company had previously been utilizing.
The firm decided to compare bcrypt with the older MD5 hashing function to see how both of them stack against each other, and for initial testing, Hive System used an 8-character, and here are the results.