Sony PlayStation 3: Hacker’s Best Friend
You can use the powerful processors in PS3 to cracking passwords, other than gaming, claims a New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese.
Breese who has been working on the project ‘Crackstation‘, for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research.
Breese claims to have used PS3 console to crack passwords at speeds 100 times greater than Intel hardware is capable of. He presented his findings to the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington, New Zealand.
PlayStation 3 can also be used to break basic encryption schemes, Breese says, although widely used ciphers such as the 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), used to protect online banking transactions, remain safe. “It’ll speed up the attacks but I can’t see that it’s broken,†he says. “(It) is still safe because the people implementing the ciphers foresaw CPU power rapidly increasing.â€
PS3’s Cell Broadband Engine technology was created by IBM, Toshiba and Sony. The companies collaborated to create the CBE, commonly known as Cell, processor, which consists of one scalar processor and eight vector processors.
So, if you are one of those PS3 owners, you have a reason to be proud, you have a console with powerful processors!
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Comment by Tony on 29 November 2007:
lol
i like the concept crackstation….
Comment by Smackall on 30 November 2007:
Wow, that was a good idea. So incase if we have a situation when we need a powerful processor, I can use my PS3… Good idea. But let me try to use it as a desktop first.
Comment by Serg V on 30 November 2007:
So that is why I bought Nintendo Wii :). This console can’t crack passwords faster than PC, but it give great gameplay and I’am not paying for unnecessary power of hardware.
New slogan - Buy PS3 and receive all other soft for free
Comment by ryan on 30 November 2007:
The web is littered with instances with people using the power of the playstation 3 for things other than gaming. Mostly they have been used for proper scientific research rather than
for cracking.
Comment by Forest Parks on 1 December 2007:
Wow…. Maybe Google should load it’s new PC line with this processor. The GChip must be in their line of sight!
Comment by matik on 1 December 2007:
Wow, why don’t they advertise this feature:D if will be cool:D
Comment by Jalaj on 3 December 2007:
Great! So you can do more than just play game!! you can game!!!
Comment by Joseph Plazo on 1 January 2008:
If the PS3 can be used to game, then I warrant the Xbox360 and Wii can do the same.
Chilling thought: hackers can buy inexpensive second hand gaming boxes to setup cracking workstations!