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I think this would be a stupid idea but you can buy an Antminer for $2458 and it does 104 TH/S for SHA256. I think doing a bit of hacking to make it crack the r
by zitterbewegung 4y ago
I think this would be a stupid idea but you can buy an Antminer for $2458 and it does 104 TH/S for SHA256. I think doing a bit of hacking to make it crack the ransomware might be feasible?
- ganoushoreilly 4y agoThere have been tons of projects that tried to repurpose bitcoin hardware. Even if it's not the latest that's a lot of computational power! So far though none of the project I follow have yielded any real results. Here's a interesting read that gives a bit of info on the differences and why it doesn't really work. https://rya.nc/asic-cracking.html https://rya.nc/asic-cracking.html
- PUSH_AX 4y agoInteresting, I wonder if you could (hypothetically) develop some hardware that does the bits the CPU needs to do and essentially have a cracker ASIC? And if it would yield improvements that require a reaction.
- ganoushoreilly 4y agoI'm sure you could build an asic for assistance, but I tend to see more FPGA style tools for these kinds of things given changes / variables that you wouldn't want hardcoded. There have definitely been a few tools built, the article I linked had reference to DES hardware crackers. Anyone that comes up with a way to repurpose all those bitcoin miners into something productive will be pretty cool in my book.
- ryan-c 4y agoI'm glad people are still finding that post useful.
- ganoushoreilly 4y agoThanks for writing it! Most of your posts were interesting reads.