I noticed an article today on CNN called  How to create a ‘super password’. For those of you who don’t feel like reading the article, it is basically about how researchers at Georgia Tech are able to brute force 8-character passwords in less than a couple of hours, using “clusters of graphics cards”. This is nothing new; graphics cards are being used for all sorts of applications other than graphics. What I think is more interesting is the conclusion the writer draws from the fact that cracking an 8-character password is a simple enough task, provided you have the hardware and the ability to program it. That conclusion being we should “Say goodbye to those wimpy, eight-letter passwords”.
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