The Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 is very good at cracking passwords,...

Forgetting your password and locking an important file can be a real problem, but luckily there are password recovery solutions that can help you out of these situations. However, these tools should only be used to gain access to your own files and never to crack someone else’s password.

In the past few years, powerful GPUs have made password cracking even easier. According to a new update from Passcovery, the Nvidia RTX 3090 can drastically reduce the time required for this.

For those who didn’t know, Nvidia’s RTX 3090 is the company’s latest flagship graphics card, featuring a GA102 graphics processor with 10,496 cores and 24GB of GDDR6X memory. The company’s new GPU is designed to dramatically improve the graphical performance of PC games and creative workloads. However, it is also very good at cracking passwords, especially weak ones.

Crack passwords with GPU acceleration

With the release of Passcovery Suite 20.09 for Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, PDR, Zip, iOS backups and a number of other popular applications and file formats, Passcovery has GPU acceleration not just for the RTX 3090, but for all of Nvidia’s new 3000 series supports graphics cards.

According to an update from Passcovery, experimental studies of clock signals between the CPU and GPU have led to a breakthrough in GPU acceleration on Nvidia graphics cards with brute force password attacks for Zip archives with classic encryption.

In testing with Passcovery Suite 09/20, the company found that brute force zip password attacks on Nvidia GTX 1060 GPUs generated 669 million passwords per second, an increase of 3.4 million per second with Passcovery Suite 3.80. At the same time, the password search speed for TrueCrypt PBKDF @ / Whirlpool / AES volumes increased by 30 percent and for Microsoft Office 2007-2019 by 4 percent.

Fortunately, software like Passcovery is mainly used for cracking passwords in locally stored files. As a result, it is very unlikely that hackers will use the power of the RTX 3090 to access your files.

If you still want to further protect your files and online accounts, you can use a password generator to create strong, complex passwords that even the best password recovery solutions cannot crack.