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Do I understand correctly that you cracked about half of the 12,000-iteration PBKDF2 hashes using a first-gen ThreadRipper and a GTX 1060, and would have cracked more except for a formatting problem in the hashes? That's eye opening.

Is Word Machine publicly available, or is it the sort of thing that has an audience of one?

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Yes, that's right. I may have not cracked them during the contest (but just after). I don't recall. Once I figured out the pattern, I could attack it much more efficiently. So, it's not as impressive as it seems.

And, unfortunately, wm has an audience of one. Mostly because I'm ashamed to share it.

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