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Wi-Fi Networking News: Commercial WPA/WPA2 Cracking Software Accelerated by GPUs
Ubergizmo: WIFI security (and more) cracked using Elcom Distributed Password Recovery software and NVIDIA GPUs
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff: NVIDIA GPUs + Elcom Distributed Password Recovery software make WiFi passwords super easy to crack
Commercial WPA/WPA2 Cracking Software Accelerated by GPUs
Wi-Fi Networking News —
... ElcomSoft accelerates cracking WPA/WPA2 keys: The Russian firm offers what it delicately terms password recovery software. They've now paired their WPA/WPA2 key crackin with the power of graphic processing units (GPUs), the brains that drive video cards, and which can carry out certain kinds of calculations vastly faster than CPUs, a computer's main processor. (Apple plans to tap GPUs for Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, due out next year.) ...
WIFI security (and more) cracked using Elcom Distributed Password Recovery software and NVIDIA GPUs
Ubergizmo —
Sold as a "password recovery" solution for $600 (5 clients) to $5000 (2500 clients), Elcom Distributed Password Recovery is a software that allows its users to crack passwords from many applications. Among the "crackable" formats: Microsoft Office, PGD (PGP Disk with conventional encryption), OpenDocument, PDF (user and owner passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more (list below in the full post).
Among these, a few are cracked even faster, thanks to the massive parallelism of the graphics processor (GPU): Office, Windows login, MD5, WPA and WPA2. It basically means that they can be cracked 20 or 100 ...
NVIDIA GPUs + Elcom Distributed Password Recovery software make WiFi passwords super easy to crack
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff —
... OpenDocument, PDF (both user and owner’s passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more. With the assistance of the Nvidia GPU and its powerful parallel processing environment CUDA, it’s so much easier to crack a couple of them especially for Office, Windows login, MD5, WPA and WPA2 etc. With GPU, it’s about 20 to 100 times faster than without the GPU! Please note the Elcom tool is specially made for the forgetful ones to recover their passwords. It’s not meant for you to get free WiFi. Trial version of Elcom tool ...
ElcomSoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to crack WPA2
Engadget —
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA's CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now, but it looks like the latest version of the cracking utility takes it to the next level -- it can break a WPA2 password using two ...
WPA/WPA2 Broken with Graphics Accellerator
dailywireless.org —
Engadget notes that Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA’s CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now. But their latest version of the cracking utility uses two GeForce GTX 280-based boards to break a WPA2 password, some 100 times faster than with just a CPU). ...
Russian firm hacks Wi-Fi passwords with NVIDIA GPUs
Tech Ticker —
... are the most widely used encryption protections which can be hacked with brute force attacks. What Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery does is that it uses power from GeForce 8800M, 9800M series or GTX 280 cards to speed up the brute force process, in some cases up to 100 times compared to conventional CPUs.
A single copy with support of 20 clients goes for $599 with the price going up to $5000 for 2500 clients.
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