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>Did he really use uppercase letters or even special chars? (A 7-bit exhaustive search would still take over 2 years on a modern GPU.)

>took 4+ days on an AMD Radeon Vega64

I don't understand. The author first claims that it would take 2 years on a modern GPU to brute force a 7 bit password with special characters but then he is helped by Nigel Williams that cracked it on 4 days on an AMD Radeon Vega64

Did Nigel Williams used a better technique? Is AMD Radeon Vega64 much faster than a "modern GPU"? Did the author overstimated the difficulty?




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