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WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-different-cuz-its-cloudy dept.

wintertargeter writes "Yeah, it's another article on security, but this time we finally get a complete picture. Tom's Hardware looks at WPA/WPA2 brute-force cracking with CPUs, GPUs, and Amazon's Nvidia Tesla-based EC2 cloud servers. Verdict? WPA/WPA2 is pretty damn secure. Now to wait for a side-channel attack. Sigh...."

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  1. Re:if it is so damn secure by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We", pretty much do. The underlying algorithm is AES, used in ssh, https, bitlocker, GPG, and so on.