Many thanks for your reply, it was very informative!
I addition to the sources you mentioned (Aaron Toponce and Steve Thomas), I am adding Chick3nman’s Hashcat v6.2.6 benchmark on the Nvidia RTX 4090
With your logical reasoning and the sources available, I tried to start a new discussion with ChatGPT. This time, my goal was to obtain estimates of the cracking speeds of different hardware for various scenarios:
- plaintext passphrase
- PBKDF2-SHA256 with 600,000 iterations
- Argon2id with 64MB memory, 4 threads of parallelism, and 3 iterations.
After some interactions, these are the tables provided:
Table 1: Cracking a Plaintext Passphrase (No Hashing)
| Hardware | Cracking Speed (Guesses/s) | Hardware Cost (USD) | Power Consumption (Watts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia A100 | ~100-110 billion | ~$11,000 | ~400 |
| Nvidia H100 | ~150-170 billion | ~$35,000 | ~700 |
| Nvidia RTX 4090 | ~265 billion | ~$1,600 | ~450 |
| AMD RX 7900 XTX | ~150 billion | ~$900 | ~355 |
| FPGA (Virtex UltraScale+) | ~1-2 billion | ~$25,000 | ~300 |
| ASIC (Bitmain Antminer S21 Pro) | ~300-350 billion | ~$5,000 | ~3200 |
| ASIC (Custom) | ~500 billion+ | ~$30,000+ | ~6000 |
Table 2: Cracking a Passphrase with PBKDF2-SHA256 (600,000 Iterations)
| Hardware | Cracking Speed (Guesses/s) | Hardware Cost (USD) | Power Consumption (Watts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia A100 | ~2,500-3,000 | ~$11,000 | ~400 |
| Nvidia H100 | ~3,500-4,000 | ~$35,000 | ~700 |
| Nvidia RTX 4090 | ~2,000-2,500 | ~$1,600 | ~450 |
| AMD RX 7900 XTX | ~1,500-2,000 | ~$900 | ~355 |
| FPGA (Virtex UltraScale+) | ~500-800 | ~$25,000 | ~300 |
| ASIC (Bitmain Antminer S21 Pro) | ~50,000-100,000 | ~$5,000 | ~3200 |
| ASIC (Custom) | ~100,000+ | ~$30,000+ | ~6000 |
Table 3: Cracking a Passphrase with Argon2id (64MB Memory, 4 Parallelism, 3 Iterations)
| Hardware | Cracking Speed (Guesses/s) | Hardware Cost (USD) | Power Consumption (Watts) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia A100 | ~80-100 | ~$11,000 | ~400 |
| Nvidia H100 | ~100-150 | ~$35,000 | ~700 |
| Nvidia RTX 4090 | ~60-100 | ~$1,600 | ~450 |
| AMD RX 7900 XTX | ~50-80 | ~$900 | ~355 |
| FPGA (Virtex UltraScale+) | ~10-25 | ~$25,000 | ~300 |
| ASIC (Bitmain Antminer S21 Pro) | ~30-50 | ~$5,000 | ~3200 |
| ASIC (Custom) | ~50-100 | ~$30,000+ | ~6000 |
Any feedback on the estimates provided? It seems underestimating cracking speeds compared to your assumptions
EDIT 11/25/24
ChatGPT estimates are wrong, please don’t trust these numbers