Guangwei Xie

Dr. Guangwei Xie


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Academic Career Length

2Years (2025-Present)

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31 March 2025 in Electronics
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GXGuangwei Xie
Guangwei Xie
XFXitian Fan
Xitian Fan
ZHZhongchen Huang
Zhongchen Huang
WCWei Cao
Wei Cao
FZFan Zhang
Fan Zhang
In the domain of password recovery, deep learning has emerged as a pivotal technology for enhancing recovery efficiency. Despite its effectiveness, the inherent computation complexity of deep learning-based password generation algorithms poses substantial challenges, particularly in achieving synergistic acceleration between deep learning inference, and plaintext encryption process. In this paper, we introduce PassRecover, a multi-FPGA-based computing system that can simultaneously accelerate deep learning-driven password generation and plaintext encryption in an end-to-end manner. The system architecture incorporates a neural processing unit (NPU) and an encryption array configured to operate under a streaming dataflow paradigm for parallel processing. It is the first approach to explore the benefit of end-to-end offline password recovery. For comprehensive evaluation, PassRecover is benchmarked against PassGAN and five industry-standard encryption algorithms (Office2010, Office2013, PDF1.7, Winzip, and RAR5). Experimental results demonstrate excellent performance: Compared to the latest work that only accelerate encryption algorithms, PassRecover achieves an average 101.5% speedup across all tested encryption algorithms. When compared to graphics processing unit (GPU)-based end-to-end implementations, this work delivers 93.01% faster processing speeds and 3.73× superior energy efficiency. These results establish PassRecover as a promising solution for resource-constrained password recovery scenarios requiring high throughput and energy efficiency.