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wmf on April 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin Miners Are Racking Up $150,000 A Day In Po...

Keep in mind that hashing data and brute-forcing a hash function require different hardware. There are no real applications that brute-force chained SHA hashes.

SilasX on April 15, 2013 [–]

Password-cracking. (Um ... for penetration testing ... that's it.)

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