As if crackers (different form Hackers, who are not malignant) didn’t already have enough tools, according to Company puts NVIDA GPUs to work cracking wireless security a company called Elcomsoft, which I am guessing is headquartered in Utopia, has developed software called “Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery” using NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). According to ARS Technica’s article:

DESCRIPTION FROM DEVELOPER: “ElcomSoft patent-pending GPU acceleration technology implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break WiFi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.”

QUOTE FROM ARS TECHNICA ARTICLE: “Elcomsoft, of course, envisions only legitimate uses for its software, stressing its applicability to government, forensic and corporate use. Hackers, of course, are not mentioned as a beneficiary, though it’s possible that they just might glean some unspecified gain from such software.“

All I can say is I hope there is something built in to the software to allow tracking of its user in the case of misuse.

Gee, will India become an Elcomsoft client? How about North Korea, or Iraq? Their possible client base is… well… scary.

I wonder how long till Elcomsoft becomes a target of their own creation?

Oh, I know, maybe they will also sell the “Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery Prevention Kit”. Don’t forget to visit the ARS Technica article to see what is going to be “crackable”, including a full list of crackables provided by Elcomsoft.

Know any IT managers? They might be interested in this article (or at least the original ARS Technica article), use your own discretion.

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Tags: encryption, gpu, nividia, wifi

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