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17th January 2009, 13:49 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Time to check your WPA/WPA2 WLAN Passwords GPU-powered general-purpose computing is causing all sorts of security nightmares these days, and wireless access points secured with WPA seem to be the latest victim. Elcomsoft, of “Advanced eBook Processor” fame, released a proprietary WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker that uses GPUs to brute force passwords in record time. Elcomsoft claims its software can try almost 16,000 passwords per second (p/sec) with a single Radeon HD 4870, using an “advanced dictionary attack” that mutates entries from a master wordlist. Advanced hardware, such as the NVIDIA Tesla S1070 GP-GPU, raises the password rate to more than 52,000 p/sec – compared to an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU, which clocks at 1,100 p/sec. The program, known as the “Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor”, claims it was designed for network administrators and IT personnel seeking to audit internal security, as well as external penetration testers and other “white hat” hackers. src: http://www.dailytech.com/New+Softwar...ticle13963.htm Guidelines for strong passwords • Include numbers, symbols, upper and lowercase letters in passwords“The core principle is that a password should have high entropy (usually taken to be equivalent to randomness) and not be readily derivable by any ‘clever’ pattern, nor should passwords be mixed with information identifying the user.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_strength http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access src: Charles
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