Turbolinux EnFuzion Cracks NT Passwords in a Minute at Comdex
Nov 13th, 20:56 UTC
Breakthrough peer-to-peer distributed processing software cracks
passwords with brute force on small network of workstations delivering
supercomputer power
LINUX BUSINESS EXPO, COMDEX, LAS VEGAS, November 13, 2000 - Turbolinux,
Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure
solutions, today announced it is demonstrating the power of its EnFuzion
software by breaking Microsoft NT passwords at product demonstrations
during Linux Business Expo at Comdex in Las Vegas this week.
EnFuzion, deployed at major sites worldwide, including global financial
institutions, national laboratories, telecommunication companies,
semiconductor firms, consumer goods and biotechnology companies, is a
new technology based on harnessing idle CPU cycles on workstations and
servers in a network to deliver supercomputing performance. Customer
typically use EnFuzion to speed up applications 100 times and more to
solve massive computational problems in fields such as risk management,
biotechnology, semiconductor research and financial modeling without the
need to buy more computers. EnFuzion runs on Linux, Windows NT and all
major Unix operating systems.
At Comdex in Las Vegas, Turbolinux is demonstrating the power of
EnFuzion by 'cracking' five-character NT passwords in less than a minute
using an application freely available on the Internet. The demonstration
is run on a small network of computers in the Turbolinux booth. EnFuzion
can easily scale to solve much larger computational challenges and is
already deployed at customer sites running on networks of more than
1,000 computers.
Turbolinux does not endorse breaking passwords on Microsoft software or
any other products.
About Turbolinux, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Turbolinux develops Linux-based software solutions
for Internet and enterprise computing infrastructure, including
reliable, available and scalable operating systems for workstations and
servers and software clustering solutions for computing traffic
management and peer-to-peer distributed computing. Backed by more than
$95 million in investments from some of the world's leading technology
companies, including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC,
Novell, Oracle, SGI and Toshiba, Turbolinux is headquartered near San
Francisco with offices around the world. For more information, visit the
Turbolinux Web site at http://www.turbolinux.com.
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belong to their respective holders.
(Submitted by John Wolley of Linux Today)
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