Energy-Efficient Brute Force Password Cracking

This paper considers the feasibility of applying low-power, energy-efficient hardware to the problem of password cracking. Low-power hardware may be usefully applied to security problems in applications where speed is not critical, but devices must be deployed discreetly and may be powered by energy-harvesting (e.g. long term surveillance). A proof of concept implementation is described and the performance trade-offs related to parallelising the implementation are discussed.