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[11 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]
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The Cell chip has several processing cores to do number crunching

The powerful chip at the heart of Sony’s PlayStation gaming console has been used to crack passwords faster than ever before.
Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in hours.
Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result.

Eight-character passwords are used to protect PDF and Zip files as well as …