High - End reconfigurable systems for fast windows’ password crackingHigh - End reconfigurable systems for fast windows’ password cracking Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2015-11-162009enOne of the most efficient methods for cracking passwords is the one based on ldquorainbow tablesrdquo; those lookup tables are offering an almost optimal time-memory tradeoff in the process of recovering the plaintext password from a password hash generated by a cryptographic hash function. In this paper, we demonstrate the first known system, implemented in a state-of-the-art reconfigurable device that cracks passwords up to 1000 times faster than the software approach. This is achieved by using a highly parallel architecture employing a fine-grained pipeline.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/287 - 29017th IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines Papaefstathiou Ioannis Παπαευσταθιου Ιωαννης Manifavas Charalabos Μανιφαβας Χαραλαμπος Theoharoulis K. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers