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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. Re:Well at least you can say Moxie has Moxie. by chill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'll save 'em the full $34.

    Go here: https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

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