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

Hi John,

This is very interesting; it's the first program that I've seen that
actually uses video card processors for non-video work. The articles
that I've seen before were just about proofs of concept, or
programming toolkits.

I suspect that new programming tools will come out, which will
automatically make video card processors look like an extension of the
CPU.

--Scott.

Sunday, January 18, 2009, 12:41:56 PM, you wrote:

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

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

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

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




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