Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?
On Wed 31 Jul 2019 at 16:07:33 +0300, Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:58:54AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > mathematical analysis of how much hardware would be necessary to crack
> > a good WPA2 password. I've seen lots of sites explaining how to use
> > hashcat with a GPU, and various real-world tests on lists of hashed
> > passwords (e.g., [1]), but can you provide a serious analysis of the
> > practical cost, in time or hardware, of cracking a real-world WPA setup?
>
> Cost - Amazon will take 11c per hour for that VM that comes with NVIDIA
> Tesla videocard.
> Said hour is more than enough to bruteforce 8 character WPA passphrase
> with hashcat.
In the context of a home user producing a secure wireless configuration,
a 64 random character passphrase works wonders. The sky is not about to
fall in.
--
Brian.
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