The Making of Ch0mps - How the Bitcoin Crash Facilitated the Making of an Affordable Monster is the complete journey of how I followed Sean Peterson's direction to train my Kraken. Sean gave us the technical foundation of passwords and hash use, direction for cracking passwords, and what we could hope to expect. I will be taking you through my journey of leveraging the Bitcoin crash and using custom mining hardware to build an affordable password cracking rig that can rival the big boys with large budgets at a small fraction of the cost. The specific technical hurdles and errors experienced will be presented along with their fixes. My goal is to provide attendees with a highly valuable experience including all of the information they will need to build their own monster at a fraction of the expected cost; while also providing a friction-less build experience by providing a heads up for all of the hurdles they can expect to face, alongside the necessary fixes to get over said hurdles. I will not be rehashing (no pun intended) previously discussed material on password cracking.

Bio: 3N|GmA is a lifelong security addict who began his journey back in the days of AOL 2.0/2.5, LuciferX, Methodus Toolz, Lethal Fragment, sub7, etc. I was instantly Addicted from the start and it wasn't endin soon. 3N|GmA developed a passion for penetration testing and learning how to make things work at a young age; specifically how to make things work that were never designed or intended to work. Fast forward through times better left undocumented; and as a result, he became a full time penetration tester, co-founder of BSidesSTL, author of ATAT, and lock pick village guy thanks to Irongeek & Parameter Security.

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