WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service

An anonymous reader writes "Moxie Marlinspike, a security researcher well known for his SSL/TLS attacks, today launched a cloud-based WPA cracking service, where for $34 you can test the security of your WPA password. The WPA Cracker Web site states: 'WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes.'"

Comments

Build a dictionary!

[Anonymous Coward]

So for $34 you can make sure your password is part of their dictionary?

Re:One problem

[ctmurray]

I think the tool is not being sold to people wanting to crack into a WiFi network, rather selling to people so that they can test their WiFi network.

Well at least you can say Moxie has Moxie.

[al0ha]

$34 to see if your password can survive a dictionary attack? Hell pay me $20 and I'll gladly save you some money and provide you with a password guaranteed to be unbreakable by brute force. I'll even sign an NDA to ensure I don't disclose it to anyone but rest assured even I won't be able to remember it!

Re:One problem

[vivian]

Alternatively you could actually not be an asshat, get on with your neighbour and negotiate with them (over a 6 pack of beer) to allow legal access in the event of an outage.

Re:One problem

[Gothmolly]

Isn't it cheaper, easier, and less douchebaggy to just get an aircard?