Category: wireless

  • WPA and WPA2 cracked 100 times faster

    The days of relying on WPA or WPA2 as your online layer of wireless security may be numbered. A new technique that makes use of NVIDIA’s newer GPU’s to do some of hte processing means that it’s possible to break “forgotten” keys about 100 times faster than was previously possible. This means a key could be broken in days or weeks instead of years. The distributed password recovery software is available here. I think there are a lot of misconceptions about WEP and WPA/WPA2 that we ought to rethink.

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