Using nvidia GPU to speed up breaking WPA/WPA2
Last Post: October 14, 2008:
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elcomsoft claim to be able to speed up wpa cracking by up to 100 times using nvidia graphics accellertion chips..
http://www.elcomsoft.com/news/268.html
will this have a massive impact ?
will it only help if you are still using pre shared key? -
Every article on this subject is so poorly written it is hard to tell what they are saying but, I guarantee that they are talking about cracking WPA-PSK. Old news.
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Gene is correct. Using the video cards only speeds up the cracking of weak keys, same story only told faster.
These tools could be used to build a larger dictionary or rainbow table faster than CPU based construction which is useful. Moving away from PSK to non-device based mutual authentication is still a better choice for more secure networks.
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