RTX 3090 graphics card is so powerful it can crack a password. The main purpose of graphics cards is of course to provide high quality videos. But in recent years, the cards have become so powerful that some use them to mine cryptocurrencies but also to break passwords by brute force.
Break a password by brute force
Brute force attack is a basic method used to crack a given password. It consists of trying all possible combinations one by one until you come across the password in question.
A strong password is made up of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers and special characters. The strong password consists of at least 8 characters. But the longer it is, the more difficult it is to crack it. We can easily find billions of possible combinations. Which will take years to test them one by one. As a result, brute force attacks are rarely used by hackers. However, with the phenomenal powers of new graphics cards such as the RTX 3090 combined with the computing power of CPUs, experts agree that it is possible to crack a password in a reasonable amount of time.
Passcovery to find the password
Passcovery software is one of the software used to find a password by bruteforce. It now supports recent graphics cards such as the RTX 3080 or RTX 3090. If you know part of the forgotten password, it is easier to find the entire password. To do this, Passcovery uses the computing power of the graphics card combined with that of the CPU. So, if the password is not complex, the graphics card can find the password for an office document or a ZIP file in a few hours or a few days at most. Indeed, the card can process up to 25 million combinations per second with its 24 GB of memory, its 10,496 stream processors and its boost frequency of 1.7 GHz . Furthermore, if the password is complex, the card in its current state will only find the password after ten years, or even a hundred.
Protect yourself against hackers
It is therefore recommended to use a strong password : more than 10 characters, or even 14, and composed of upper and lower case letters as well as numbers and special characters. You can also use strong password generators and store them via password managers such as keePass, Dashlane etc.
This way you will still be safe from brute force attacks. But with the evolution of the computing power of PCs and graphics cards, it would be possible to crack a password currently considered strong in a few hours.
