And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking " Graphics processors can speed up password cracking by

And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking " Graphics processors can speed up password cracking by a factor of 50 to 100 over general purpose computers. As of 2011, commercial products are available that claim the ability to test up to 2,800,000,000 passwords a second on a standard desktop computer using a high-end graphics processor. [3] Such a device can crack a 10 letter single-case password in one day. Note that the work can be distributed over many computers for an additional speedup proportional to the number of available computers with comparable GPUs."