It isn’t the first time that we’ve heard that NVIDIA GPUs are used to crack passwords, as they’re simply too powerful with their parallel processing power. And now used with a software tool – the Elcom Password recovery, making it much easier and faster to crack the passwords of WiFi networks, so you get free WiFi all the time.
The Elcom Distributed Password Recovery might sound little pricey to some people, which costs $600 (for a minimum of 5 clients). But in long terms it will save your pocket for paying Internet access and WiFi.
The Elcom tool is capable of cracking passwords for many applications. The crackable formats include Microsoft Office, PGD (PGP Disk with conventional encryption), OpenDocument, PDF (both user and owner’s passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more.
With the assistance of the Nvidia GPU and its powerful parallel processing environment CUDA, it’s so much easier to crack a couple of them especially for Office, Windows login, MD5, WPA and WPA2 etc. With GPU, it’s about 20 to 100 times faster than without the GPU! Please note the Elcom tool is specially made for the forgetful ones to recover their passwords. It’s not meant for you to get free WiFi.
via [crunchgear] via [ubergizmo]
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November 25th, 2010 at 6:36 am
I may test the software again. My test system had built a Core2Duo CPU and a Nvidia GF 260 graphics card with 1GB memory. This software including CUDA support only 178 passwords per second.