On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Joel Eriksson <[email protected]>wrote:
> It will be _a lot_ slower. If you want to have any chance of intercepting > frequency hopping calls (without having receivers constantly recording > everything at each of the possible frequencies) you need to use GPUs and > SSDs. If you don't have to deal with frequency hopping, and don't have to > decipher in near real-time, it doesn't matter as much. > > Regards, > Joel > > In such case, wouldn't it make more sense to have more CPUs on the MB? > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Amber and Sarosh < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> Can anyone please guide if GPUs are necessary for rainbow table lookup >>> using kraken to find the key to decipher an intercepted communication or is >>> it possible to do this using just CPUs? In case the later is possible how >>> much time it will take approximately? >>> >>> >> GPUs are not necessary, just desirable. If GPUs are missing, kraken will >> still work with A5Cpu.so, but it will be somewhat slower. Assuming that >> during cracking your PC is CPU limited, the benefit should scale roughly >> with your setup ratio of GPU power/CPU power. In reality you will run into >> RAM and table I/O bottlenecks before that. In short it is highly depended >> on your setup ;-) >> >> The idea is, that the easier factor to improve is the CPU, so why not do >> it? >> >> Nikos >> >>> Regards, >>> Naheed, Amber & Sarosh >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> A51 mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.srlabs.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> A51 mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.srlabs.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/a51 >> >> > > > -- > Best Regards, > Joel Eriksson >
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