A tale of Phobos – how we almost cracked a ransomware using CUDA

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  • So on average there are 256 SHA256s per key, but worst case it takes thousands of iterations. Coding this in a GPU-friendly way was non-trivial, and there are still some GPU cycles wasted.

    Disclaimer: I worked on that research, but I'm not an employe anymore.

    [0]: https://github.com/CERT-Polska/phobos-cuda-decryptor-poc

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  • We've been working on some open source tooling called "oxen" that was built for large datasets of images, video, audio, text etc. We wanted to solve the exact problem you're flagging here with git.

    Feel free to check it out here https://github.com/Oxen-AI/oxen-release#-oxen would love any feedback!

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