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I'm not interested in bitcoin mining , I just want to generate sha256 hash of all possible input string of 64 characters length , can I use bitcoin mining hardware just to generate just sha256 hash for my personal use?
Regarding use of bitcoin mining hardware for generating sha 256 hash, other than bitcoin mining
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Most bitcoin ASICs take as input a SHA256 chaining value and a 480-bit block, and they try every possible 32-bit suffix to check if SHA256(SHA256(block + suffix)) begins with sufficiently many zero bits.
So, it won't be easy to do what you want to do (crack a password?).
There are use cases where this limited functionnality is sufficient though, see the 3SUM-pool for instance (disclaimer : it's mine).
That really depends on the specifics. – Pieter Wuille – 2017-10-26T12:01:22.197
What type of specifics, can you help? – Newbie – 2017-10-26T12:03:20.367
1Bitcoin miners (ASICs) are optimized for Sha256(Sha256(data)), so AFAIK it's not possible to Sha256() with ASICs. – MCCCS – 2017-10-26T14:08:25.357