All passwords and hashes within the environment are designed to not require the use of advanced password cracking hardware, such as GPUs or cloud based solutions.  Hashes will either be weak enough to crack on Virtual Desktop hardware during the competition, will be provided through other methods, such as OSINT, data gathering, left on systems, etc., or are significantly complex. Students may not use their own or regional host systems for cracking or processing passwords (or any information).  Virtual Desktop systems are the ONLY systems which may be used for processing this data or cracking passwords.