GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster 189
MojoKid writes "Russian-based ElcomSoft has just released ElcomSoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0, which can take advantage of both Nvidia and ATI GPUs.
ElcomSoft claims that the software uses a 'proprietary GPU acceleration technology,' which implies that neither CUDA, Stream, nor OpenCL are being utilized in this instance. At its heart, what ElcomSoft Wireless Security Auditor does is perform brute-force dictionary attacks of WPA and WPA2 passwords. If an access point is set up using a fairly insecure password that is based on dictionary words, there is a higher likelihood that a password can be guessed. ElcomSoft positions the software as a way to 'audit' wireless network security."
Auditions (Score:5, Funny)
Heavy machine guns!
Audit your neighbors' dodge skills.
Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem (Score:2, Funny)
Lets go threw the dictionary first ... ...
Lets go threw the dictionary and
Please quit throwing dictionaries. Those things are heavy and they hurt.
Generating Passwords (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem (Score:5, Funny)
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo
Don't use that, I use that as a password already!
Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem (Score:4, Funny)
You can generate them offline and with a good set of dice you get real entropy.
I think we have a different definition of "good set of dice". My set of dice are "good" if they roll 20's consistently.