Peaches Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Russian Firm Offers Wi-Fi Encryption Cracker John E. Dunn, Techworld.com Friday, January 16, 2009 2:55 PM PST 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. Although the software technique behind the software has been around for months, it now has a price - £599 for UK users (more than $975). PC World - Story - http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...on_cracker.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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