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Originally Posted by playbox12 Obviously it also depends on how often they hashed the password. Now GPU cracking is faster but it doesn't give too much of a boost with SHA512 due to how its made (but a few thousand per second is certainly achievable), but it's still significantly fast, he can easily have cracked a few dozen passwords already.

Regardless of how a hash is designed, GPU cracking is going to be far faster. Even with CPU cracking, you're looking at in the million SHA512 hashes / sec. With a really good GPU, you're looking at figures in the 100 millions, it's really not as secure as it sounds.