Thursday Morning Only: Cheap Wireless Router

[hukilai]

Bipolar,

I am afraid it takes you much longer than a few months to crack a proper passphrase (WPA2 uses AES-based encrypting). I do not have precise numbers with me, but it is gigantic - and is far beyond capabilities even of a nastiest hacker.

'Weak' passphrases can be broken much faster, of course.

[ddubois]

Security Now is a great podcast, and Steve Gibson, the host, has a password generator on his site:
https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

[BiPolar_Nut]

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Bipolar,

I am afraid it takes you much longer than a few months to crack a proper passphrase (WPA2 uses AES-based encrypting). I do not have precise numbers with me, but it is gigantic - and is far beyond capabilities even of a nastiest hacker.

'Weak' passphrases can be broken much faster, of course.

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You may be right regarding WPA2 provided a solid passphrase is used. I haven't researched the specifics since historically through WEP and WPA1 cracking or bruting was fairly trivial. I still subscribe to the idea that WEP was supposed to be "the Sh*t" and it got cracked by some punk high school kid in cali....who's to say the same won't ahppen to WPA2...and in fact there are WPA1 vulnerabilities in certain circumstances). WPA2 may be the best thing since sliced bread...I just don't trust it *YET*, even if solid alphanumeric, random, nonsensical, and extended ascii chars are included.

It'd be wonderful if WPA2 is all it took to make it secure. Perhaps that's indeed all it takes. I just wouldn't bet my entire online bankroll on it...my overparanoid $0.02.