Wolverhampton LUG - Password Cracking With a GPU and Why Complexity Matters

This will be a demo of password cracking, how you can accelerate it using a commodity graphics card and why the issues of complexity, storage and re-use matter.

The meeting starts at 2:30pm Eastern time with an hour of social/networking hanging out. The talk will start at 3:30 and last about an hour.

The presenter will be Adam Sweet. Adam is a Linux sysadmin and consultant with 15 years experience. He is the organiser of Wolverhampton Linux User Group, was a presenter on the LugRadio podcast and organiser of the UKs largest annual Linux community conference LugRadio Live before founding a Linux and Open Source support and consultancy business.