Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed
Oct.12, 2008
Russian security company Elcomsoft just posted a press release detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys:
With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack.
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This might not seem telecom related, but I'm allowing it for two reasons:
- VoIP over WiFi is telecom
- Telecom managers sometimes need to defend the cost of putting in cable, and security is a good selling point.
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