Parallel Implementation of Scrypt: A Study on GPU Acceleration for Password-Based Key Derivation Function.

Autor: Seong Jun Choi, Dong Cheon Kim, Seog Chung Seo
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Zdroj: Journal of Information & Communication Convergence Engineering; Jun2024, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p98-108, 11p
Abstrakt: Scrypt is a password-based key derivation function proposed by Colin Percival in 2009 that has a memory-hard structure. Scrypt has been intentionally designed with a memory-intensive structure to make password cracking using ASICs, GPUs, and similar hardware more difficult. However, in this study, we thoroughly analyzed the operation of Scrypt and proposed strategies to maximize computational parallelism in GPU environments. Through these optimizations, we achieved an outstanding performance improvement of 8284.4% compared with traditional CPU-based Scrypt computations. Moreover, the GPUoptimized implementation presented in this paper outperforms the simple GPU-based Scrypt processing by a significant margin, providing a performance improvement of 204.84% in the RTX3090. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach in harnessing the computational power of GPUs and achieving remarkable performance gains in Scrypt calculations. Our proposed implementation is the first GPU implementation of Scrypt, demonstrating the ability to efficiently crack Scrypt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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