Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed
16Oct2008 Filed under: just attu Author: Attu
Russian security company Elcomsoft just posted a press release (original PDF) detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys:
With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack.
The 100-fold increase in speed is achieved with two GeForct GTX280’s per workstation; for €599 you can build a network of 20 workstations dedicated to “recovering” your “lost” WPA keys. This means that a WPA or WPA2 key could be cracked in days or weeks instead of years.
- Tags: password recovery, tech, wpa, wpa2
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Darkflame
October 16th, 2008 at 14:00
If you want security, just set your router to only allow certain MAC address’s of devices you use.
MAC address’s can be spoofed, but theres enough combinations to make an automated search take quite awhile, as it will multiply the length of any normal cracking attempted.