A unique use of PS3’s !
Feb 20th, 2009 by admin
We have long known that the Playstation 3 is used in Financial institutions as cheap hardware method to run risk calculation but it seems other innovative uses have been found for this particularly powerful piece of hardware. In this case it is to show that the MD5 checksum algorithm, which should create a unique signature for every file, has a flaw.
Using a cluster of 200 PS3’s a rogue SSL certificate authority was created which was used to create valid SSL certificates. This would mean that a visitor would have no notion that they were visiting a compromised web server. You can read more about this here.
The cluster of 200 PS3’s is equivalent to 8000 desktop CPU cores or $20,000 on Amazon EC2, a phenomenal amount of processing power for around $60K. There are a number of resources that describe how you can program the PS3.
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