Technology

VGA over Cat-5 ethernet

VGA over Cat-5 ethernet

If you’ve ever needed to place a VGA monitor further than the standard 6 foot cable allows, you may be familiar with some of these problems: VGA cables are expensive Several cables chained together affects signal quality Running a VGA cable through conduit is pretty difficult You can avoid a lot of these problems by […]

NSA@home – distributed FPGA MD5 cracker

NSA@home – distributed FPGA MD5 cracker

Here’s an innovative use of recycled HD-video electronics: NSA@home is a fast FPGA-based SHA-1 and MD5 bruteforce cracker. It is capable of searching the full 8-character keyspace (from a 64-character set) in about a day in the current configuration for 800 hashes concurrently. The cracker is built out of surplus Grass Valley HD video transform […]