Re: Rainbowtables for WPA PSK?

From: Fabien Degouet (fdegouet@conthackto.com.mx)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 00:49:58 EST


Hi,

AFAIK the hashes used during the authentication are salted with the SSID...

It means that building rainbow-like tables would be made SSID-based..It
sounds almost impossible.

fabien

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen" <jeroen@isvet.nl>
To: <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: Rainbowtables for WPA PSK?

> 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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