German Hacker Uses Cloud to Crack Passwords

A German hacker claims to have used cloud computing to crack passwords stored in an algorithm developed by the National Security Agency, according to ZDNet UK.

Thomas Roth announced Tuesday he had used one of Amazon Web Service’s Cluster GPU Instances to crack the passwords encrypted in a Secure Hashing Algorithm hash.

“I think that cloud cracking can be useful in the future because of its massive parallel nature. You can…