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[New research] Cracking bcrypt: Is new-gen hardware and AI making password hacking faster?

Sep. 16, 2025

Almost two years ago, the Specops research team analyzed how long it took to crack passwords hashed with the bcrypt algorithm. Two years is a long time in cybersecurity, so we’re revisiting the research with newer, more powerful hardware, to create a new table of bcrypt cracking times. The reason for this is two-fold: the…

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