BTCrack 0.9a is going ahead nice, optimisations have been done and the final release will be on the Nruns website as promised very soon™ :)
BTCrack 0.9a now spawns 8 threads in order to crack the keys, and this implies that dual-core or quad-core processors are working out very nicely :) A few assembler optimisations are still ahead and the final release should be ready for 23c3.
The general assumption that the attack is theroreticaly possible and that Pins of 6 digits represent a good protection is now pratcticaly refuted.
Here are my current stats on a Dual-Core P4 2Ghz (48000 pins per second)
Pin Time required (seconds)
Friday Squid Blogging: Jurassic Fish Chokes on Squid
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Here’s a fossil of a 150-million year old fish that choked to death on a *belemnite
rostrum*: the hard, internal shell of an extinct, squid-like animal.
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10 hours ago

