[aklug] Re: Also surprising

I read that too, and I think one of us is misunderstanding what they're
doing.

I'm under the impression that you send them some captured packets and
they figure out what your password is. It would have to already be in
their dictionary for them to figure it out.

I get the impression reading their FAQ that if someone is actually using
a secure password, they probably won't find it. "bob" they'll probably
find pretty quickly.

Jim G

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 11:01 -0900, barsalou wrote:
> I saw this article on slashdot as well:
>
> http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/12/07/2322235/WPA-PSK-Cracking-As-a-Service
>
> The interesting parts of this to me are two fold:
>
> - Do I want to be submitting my passwords to a service that might
> capture them and add them to the "dictionary"?
>
> - The potentially reduces the whole idea that it would take someone
> too long to crack a password with a certain key strength argument.
>
> I'm not an expert in this area, so my perceptions of the last issue
> may be flawed.
>
> Mike B.
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