full-disclosure - Re: WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

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Message-ID: <4602.1223694333@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:05:33 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Cedric Blancher <blancher@...tel-securite.fr>
Cc: Full-Disclosure mailing list <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:36:15 +0200, Cedric Blancher said:

If we have this:
> But what are they referring to saying "up to 100 times faster than by
> using CPU only" ? We don't know. On, fast CPU, Aircrack cracking speed
> can go up to around 650/700 psk/s. By 100, it means 65k/70k psk/s. Let's
> round it to 100k psk/s.

and this:
> I don't see any breakthrough here that could make WPA/WPA2 PSK
> inefficient. Really. Need something like a real crypto attack, or real
> computation power boost, like reaching 10M/s.

You only need a botnet of several hundred gamer's boxes and you're at 10M.

You probably want to program your botnet to only be running full speed when
the guy isn't gaming, you don't wanna wreck his FPS and make him suspicious. ;)

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