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WPA-PSK Cracking As a Service

Posted by kdawson on from the get-out-of-the-cafe-quicker dept.

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.'"

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  1. Build a dictionary! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  2. Well at least you can say Moxie has Moxie. by al0ha · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $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!

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    Did you ever wake up in the morning, with a Zombie Woof behind your eyes? -- FZ
  3. Re:One problem by vivian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.