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[RawrImAMonster]

The method the security guy at work was telling me about was saying once it gets to a certain point you'll start getting the password in bigger chunks. He said you can get any WPA2 password in under 24 hours.

So don't trust that completely.

Im not too interested in networking and even less in network security, but when I read on it earlier this year, the 'hack' was that the handshake packets could be downloaded and the password could be brute forced offline, back home with somebody's big GPGPU machine. But its still brute force, so a long complex randomized password is still much harder (longer) to crack. (to the order of years, not hours)
perhaps he was talking about original WPA, which is much faster to crack.


oh, and turn off WPS, that shit is as bad as WEP.

With the method he was talking about, you had to have a device in range of the wifi listening all the time. It was an actual crack, not just brute forcing it.

I don't actually know anything about how that one works. I'm just basing that off what he told me. He's pretty well trained security-wise so I guess he probably knows what he's talking about :dunno: