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)
DSS_DEFAULT_HASH_ALGORITHMS
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I’ve a feature in some of my tools, that let you choose the hash algorithm.
Many of my tools calculate hashes, and for historical reasons, that is the
MD5 ...
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