Speeding up WiFi Hacking with Hardware Accelerators
Elcomsoft is claiming that the WPA protocol is dead, just because they can speed up brute-force cracking by 100 times using a hardware accelerator. Why exactly is this news? Yes, weak passwords are weak—we already know that. And strong WPA passwords are still strong. This seems like yet another blatant attempt to grab some press attention with a half-baked cryptanalytic result.
Charlie • October 14, 2008 7:14 AM
To be fair, the actual software is pretty awesome (even if the press releases aren’t). I’ve observed a roughly 10x speed increase on NTLM hashes using a Geforce 8800GTX, which is pretty neat on (relatively) cheap commodity hardware.