The password in this case is 9 characters in length and is composed of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and digits 0 thru 9. On a computer with an Intel i7 K875 2.93ghz CPU the time estimated to solve the password is (36,216 years, 188 days) or as Hashcat puts it, “Until the Next Big Bang”
To solve this password I’m utilizing the HP Proliant ML350P Gen8 Server with 24 Intel i7 2ghz CPU cores, plus two NVIDIA Tesla K40c GPU’s, each with 12GB of GDDR5 Memory @3ghz and 2,880 CUDA cores each for parallel computing.
At this point Hashcat has been working for 31 minutes 14 seconds and has eliminated over 22 million combinations, shaving 9 years and 32 days off of the original estimated time.
Given what we know, does anyone want to guess (or calculate) how long it will actually take to solve this password?
Winner gets a chicken dinner!