Mobile Architecture for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks

Authors

  • Alexandru Marculescu The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Keywords:

brute-force attack, distributed computing, smartphones

Abstract

The focus of this paper centers on demonstrating that a distributed brute-force search of even a medium key-sized cryptosystem’s keyspace is possible even using the increasingly present mobile devices, although not quite practical yet, except for extremely well-funded groups. It is also an operational model that also aims to be an explicit documentation source for building a distributed architecture involving a server and any number of mobile agents, as well as highlighting both the advantages and the drawbacks of executing such an algorithm on smartphones.

Author Biography

Alexandru Marculescu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

IT&C Security Master Program

Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics

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Published

2014-03-30

How to Cite

Marculescu, A. (2014). Mobile Architecture for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 6(1), 30-37. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Mobile_Architecture_for_Distributed_Brute-Force_Attacks