Elcomsoft is claiming that the WPA protocol is dead, just because they can speed up brute-force cracking by 100 times using a hardware accelerator. Why exactly is this news? Yes, weak passwords are weak -- we already know that. And strong WPA passwords are still strong. This seems like yet another blatent attempt to grab some press attention with a half-baked cryptanalytic result.
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Speeding up WiFi Hacking with Hardware Accelerators





