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> There's absolutely no way to crack secp256k1 keys with even a datacenter GPU That's not what the article is implying is happening. > “An Nvidia 3090 can do
by bastawhiz 3y ago
> There's absolutely no way to crack secp256k1 keys with even a datacenter GPU
That's not what the article is implying is happening.
> “An Nvidia 3090 can do roughly 4 million [password guesses] per second with 1000 iterations, but that would go down to 8 thousand per second with 500,000 iterations, which is why iteration count matters so much,” Weaver said. “So a combination of ‘not THAT strong of a password’ and ‘old vault’ and ‘low iteration count’ would make it theoretically crackable but real work, but the work is worth it given the targets.”
- Grimburger 3y agoI think the signals got crossed here, they aren't cracking public key cryptography as noted by GP, they are cracking password hashes. You can find a lot of Hashcat benchmarks online giving you are rough idea of what current consumer hardware can do against argon2 or brcypt: https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/32e662a5bb63bc4f51b847bb422222fd https://gist.github.com/Chick3nman/32e662a5bb63bc4f51b847bb4...