Password Cracking on Amazon EC2

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:59:59 +0000

Cracking with the desktop computer is not always a good idea. It can be quite noisy when you are trying to sleep. The room can become too hot for a hacker. And most important of all, all the hashes are already in the cloud! Let’s get started.

Take a look the the current GPU instance details at amazon and choose the right version for your purse. Spin up the instance and login via ssh before proceeding. For starters I chose the x2.2xlarge instance type. The AMI image ID was ami-87564feb or simply choose a Ubuntu trusty amd64 image.

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Password Cracking on Amazon EC2