Spend the $17.00 and find out?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:21, Manuel Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not sure on how this would be usefull if you use random passwords or
> passphrases that uses the full ascii character set
>
>
> 2012/2/20 Kurt Buff <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/14/moxie-marlinspikes-cloudcracker-aims-for-speedier-cheaper-password-cracking/
>>
>> By Andy Greenberg
>> Forbes Staff
>> 2/14/2012
>>
>> A little over two years ago, well-known hacker and security researcher
>> Moxie Marlinspike launched an online service that, for a fee of $17,
>> could crack most wifi networks’ password in less than hour. Apparently
>> that wasn’t fast enough.
>>
>> On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched CloudCracker, an upgrade to the
>> Web-based penetration testing service he formerly called WPACracker,
>> with a major upgrade to the speed and versatility of that
>> password-breaking service. For $17, CloudCracker can now break into a
>> standard WPA-PSK wireless networks by burning through dictionaries of
>> possible passwords at about twice the speed of WPACracker, exhausting
>> 600 million words in one hour instead of 260 million in the previous
>> version .
>>
>> For networks with especially obscure passwords, the tool can now use
>> dictionaries as big as 4.8 billion words in the same amount of time
>> for the price of $136. And instead of only focusing on cracking wifi
>> networks, the tool can now break passwords protected by Microsoft‘s
>> Windows LAN Manager and NT LAN Manager hashing systems too, for a
>> price of fifty cents for every password. Marlinspike says he hopes to
>> add more password formats in the future.
>>
>> “We’re really trying to push the envelope in terms of password
>> cracking,” says Marlinspike, a well known security researcher who now
>> works for Twitter but built CloudCracker as an independent project.
>> “Basically you get more dictionaries for your dollar, about twice the
>> cracking power for the same price.”
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
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