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Crack WPA on the cloud
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#12At least someone found a use for all those old bitcoin mining rigs...
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#13And if you lose your important WPA key and can't recover it via dictionary attack, there's always reaver-wps: http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
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#14I'm not sure what they're using but if I recall from when this has come up before Amazon's EC2 ToS prohibits this usasge.
From a Reuters article about a similar program by German security researcher Thomas Roth [1]:
"Nothing in this researcher's work is predicated on the use of Amazon EC2. As researchers often do, he used EC2 as a tool to show how the security of some network configurations can be improved," said Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener.
[1]: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/01/07/us-amazon-hacking-i...
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#16And if you lose your important WPA key and can't recover it via dictionary attack, there's always reaver-wps: http://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/
only if they have wps enabled...
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#17Unfortunately pentesters can't send their capture files to third parties, so this has limited uses.
That depends entirely on the terms of the engagement. If this service (or others) had agreeable data retention/use terms, then the pentester and the client could include that as an acceptable use of their data.
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#18Ah, 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.
Where did you get 300m words from? Reading that page, I gathered they had many billion words in their dictionary at the highest price...
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#19Ah, 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.
Where did you get 300m words from? Reading that page, I gathered they had many billion words in their dictionary at the highest price...
The big sticker in the top right hand corner of the main page (https://www.cloudcracker.com/css/images/sticker3.png).
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#20I love how they quoted Hacker News, as if Hacker News is some sort of editorial team.
That's pretty creative even if it's prone to abuse. I bet one can source pretty much any quote from HN, in the worst case linking to one's own post :)