A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon's EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into the hands of the masses.
Thomas Roth, a consultant working in security and software engineering at Lanworks AG, wrote last week about the outcome of a recent experiment in which he used a single Clsuter A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon's EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into the hands of the masses.
More: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-makes-short-work-strong-encryption-111910
Thomas Roth, a consultant working in security and software engineering at Lanworks AG, wrote last week about the outcome of a recent experiment in which he used a single Clsuter A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon's EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into the hands of the masses.
More: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-makes-short-work-strong-encryption-111910