High-Performance Password Recovery Hardware Going From GPU to Hybrid CPU-FPGA Platform

Password recovery has a high demand for computing power. This article aims to provide an overview of password recovery systems, including the basic concepts of password recovery, the popular hardware platforms ranging from the traditional application-specific integrated circuits and field-programmable gate arrays to modern graphic process units and hybrid CPU-FPGA chips, the password guessing methods, and the acceleration techniques applicable to crack various password encryption algorithms.