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L0phtCrack 7 audits passwords up to 500 times faster (Help Net Security)
2016-08-31 13:00

L0pht Holdings released a completely revamped L0phtCrack 7, which includes a new cracking engine which takes optimal advantage of multi-core CPUs and multi-core GPUs. A 4-core CPU running a brute force audit with L0phtCrack 7 is now 5 times faster than L0phtCrack 6. If you have a GPU such as the AMD Radeon Pro Duo the speedup is an astounding 500 times. L0phtCrack was first released 19 years ago. Its password cracking capability forced Microsoft … More →


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