Verifiable Brute Force Strength
4 months ago
- #brute-force
- #cryptography
- #benchmarking
- The text provides a detailed comparison of brute force search capabilities across various projects, measuring their speed in bits per second and estimating the time to exhaust a 128-bit keyspace.
- Projects like Bitcoin Mining, RC5-72, and various GPU configurations (e.g., 448x 2080 GPUs, RTX 4090) are benchmarked, with Bitcoin Mining leading at 69.850 bits/sec.
- The time to exhaust a 128-bit keyspace varies dramatically, from 10.131 billion years for Bitcoin Mining to 3.280 sextillion years for a ThinkPad T480s.
- Performance benchmarks include hardware AES encryption, distributed.net's RC5-72 challenge, and password cracking with Hashcat on different GPU setups.
- The text also explores the evolution of Bitcoin mining hash rates from 2009 to 2026, showing exponential growth in computational power.
- Specialized hardware like macOS M3 Pro with SHA acceleration and AES-NI on Intel CPUs are also benchmarked, highlighting their efficiency in cryptographic operations.