[pchelpers] News:Russians start selling Wi-Fi encryption cracker

The Russian security company that caused a stir some months by talking
up its cracking tool for recovering Wi-Fi encryption keys.
by Staff  Sunday, January 18 2009

The Russian security company that caused a stir some months by talking
up its cracking tool for recovering Wi-Fi encryption keys, has started
selling its software to all-comers in a specially packaged product. 

Normally, running a tool to do this on a conventional Intel Core 2 Duo
desktop PC would take months to brute force even a single 8-character
WPA/WPA2-PSK password, of which there are trillions of possible
alpha-numeric combinations at that bit length. 

Elcomsoft claims that Wireless Security Auditor 1.0 can perform the same
function by capturing traffic from a Wi-Fi connection using a separate
packet sniffer, processing the data through up to four high-end graphics
cards in order to retrieve the password in a fraction of that time. 

More here:
http://www.networkworldme.com/v1/news.aspx?v=1&nid=617&sec=security
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