Re: Rainbowtables for WPA PSK?

From: Marlon Jabbur (msjabbur@uol.com.br)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 07:27:51 EST


As fas as I know the essid is used as a salt in the encryption of WPA PSK so
it's not feasible to create the rainbow tables.

Regards,
Marlon

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 18:58, Jeroen wrote:
> Without studying the ins and outs, I think it should be possible to
> generate rainbowtables for WPA PSKs. Especially since on-the-fly cracking
> takes quite some time per crypt and most users use a alphanumeric
> characterset for the pass. It my assumption right? Anyone already working
> on this subject? Please let me know!
>
> Gz,
> Jeroen
>

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