GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster

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."

Comments

Auditions

[Thanshin]

Heavy machine guns!

Audit your neighbors' dodge skills.

Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[KiwiCanuck]

Isn't there a way of taking a prime number and converting it to ascii? I'm not a software guy, so I use to go to computer services (when I was in uni) and get them to generate a password for me. I have accumulated 8 passwords. Now I just rotate through them. Is this a good idea? Cheers for any advice.

Re:Brute-force password guessing not a problem

[buchner.johannes]

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

[dubbreak]

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.