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Crack WPA on the cloud

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Re: Crack WPA on the cloud

#9
Ah, so don't use any of the 300,000,000 words in their dictionary - https://www.cloudcracker.com/dictionaries.html

Any simple password generator (say, Apple's Keychain, or pwgen) should be able to generate a non-dictionary key of length 12-16 characters in a few seconds that would withstand this and most similar techniques for the next few years.

Re: Crack WPA on the cloud

#10

Unfortunately pentesters can't send their capture files to third parties, so this has limited uses.

Why not? A WPA handshake can be considered public information. Connecting to that particular ESSID yields all that's needed to brute force WPA and would be considered external. There's no limitations this presents to pen testers. However, for $17 this is a relatively small dictionary set. Based on what we use for real world pen testing we have just shy of 1 billion unique words / phrases.
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