Forum cracks the vintage passwords of Ken Thompson and other Unix pioneers

Checkmate It “took 4+ days on an AMD Radeon Vega64 running hashcat at about 930MH/s during that time (those familiar know the hash-rate fluctuates and slows down towards the end),” Williams reported. An AMD Radeon Vega64 is a graphics card and Hashcat is a password-cracking program that takes advantage of the powerful parallel-computing capabilities of graphics cards.

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