WPA/WPA2 Cracking With CPUs, GPUs, and the Cloud

wintertargeter writes "Yeah, it's another article on security, but this time we finally get a complete picture. Tom's Hardware looks at WPA/WPA2 brute-force cracking with CPUs, GPUs, and Amazon's Nvidia Tesla-based EC2 cloud servers. Verdict? WPA/WPA2 is pretty damn secure. Now to wait for a side-channel attack. Sigh...."

Side channel attack?

[liquidweaver]

It's not possible remotely. I'd like to know how a side channel attack could be executed against a wireless target? Magic? "Hey, do you mind if I hook up my oscilloscope to you router for a few hours? Why? No reason."

Re:Side channel attack?

[localman57]

In that case, I'd like to ask if we could have your wife come in and do some testing at the mattress store where I work. Any time after closing would be fine.

Re:The Only Solution

[h4rr4r]

Nope, just had to chase a verizon man out of my server room a couple weeks ago.

The receptionist let him in because it said verizon on his jacket and someone kept letting him through doors after that. He was on the wrong floor and would have disconnected live equipment had I not chased him our with a rack rail.