a) you don't need a blade server in your car, with WPA you only need to cap 1 specific packet which is the 4 way hand shake (ok that's probably 4 packets) which you can then take to work and feed in to Elcomsofts software.
b) the GPU increases the speed by 100x, well thats only on 1 client, even at the cheap end of 20 licenses that's 2000x faster then cracking on your laptop at least. 100 years just came down to 20 days
c) if you have the best kit available that this software supports, and this stuff is aimed at goverments and forensics labs
then that's 20 machines running 64 processor cors and 4 GPU's per node
= 80 GPU's and 1280 cores
then it could crack a password that takes 100 years on a normal machine in roughly a day maybe, i didn't do an actual calculation.
I think however a good 64 charictar password takes a lot longer then 100 years on a normal machine. Anyone know roughly how long, I have in my mind a feeling that it takes longer then the universe exists, or that might be something else I was thinking about.
Anyway I can just see someone starting a Cracking@HOME project like Seti or Folding
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Need to clear a few things up I think.
a) you don't need a blade server in your car, with WPA you only need to cap 1 specific packet which is the 4 way hand shake (ok that's probably 4 packets) which you can then take to work and feed in to Elcomsofts software.
b) the GPU increases the speed by 100x, well thats only on 1 client, even at the cheap end of 20 licenses that's 2000x faster then cracking on your laptop at least. 100 years just came down to 20 days
c) if you have the best kit available that this software supports, and this stuff is aimed at goverments and forensics labs
then that's 20 machines running 64 processor cors and 4 GPU's per node
= 80 GPU's and 1280 cores
then it could crack a password that takes 100 years on a normal machine in roughly a day maybe, i didn't do an actual calculation.
I think however a good 64 charictar password takes a lot longer then 100 years on a normal machine. Anyone know roughly how long, I have in my mind a feeling that it takes longer then the universe exists, or that might be something else I was thinking about.
Anyway I can just see someone starting a Cracking@HOME project like Seti or Folding