Moxie Marlinspike's CloudCracker Aims For Speedier, Cheaper Password Cracking

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/14/moxie-marlinspikes-c=
loudcracker-aims-for-speedier-cheaper-password-cracking/

By Andy Greenberg
Forbes Staff
2/14/2012

A little over two years ago, well-known hacker and security researcher=20
Moxie Marlinspike launched an online service that, for a fee of $17,=20
could crack most wifi networks=E2=80=99 password in less than hour. Appar=
ently=20
that wasn=E2=80=99t fast enough.

On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched CloudCracker, an upgrade to the=20
Web-based penetration testing service he formerly called WPACracker,=20
with a major upgrade to the speed and versatility of that=20
password-breaking service. For $17, CloudCracker can now break into a=20
standard WPA-PSK wireless networks by burning through dictionaries of=20
possible passwords at about twice the speed of WPACracker, exhausting=20
600 million words in one hour instead of 260 million in the previous=20
version .

For networks with especially obscure passwords, the tool can now use=20
dictionaries as big as 4.8 billion words in the same amount of time for=20
the price of $136. And instead of only focusing on cracking wifi=20
networks, the tool can now break passwords protected by Microsoft=E2=80=98=
s=20
Windows LAN Manager and NT LAN Manager hashing systems too, for a price=20
of fifty cents for every password. Marlinspike says he hopes to add more=20
password formats in the future.

=E2=80=9CWe=E2=80=99re really trying to push the envelope in terms of pas=
sword=20
cracking,=E2=80=9D says Marlinspike, a well known security researcher who=
 now=20
works for Twitter but built CloudCracker as an independent project.=20
=E2=80=9CBasically you get more dictionaries for your dollar, about twice=
 the=20
cracking power for the same price.=E2=80=9D

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