On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:12 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:

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From: "Hearns, John" <john.hearns@mclaren.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:58:17 -0000 To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Amazon cloud computing used to crack wi-fi passwords

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/11/amazon_cloud_wifi_cracking/

I think this is appropriate for an HPC list. This guy is using GPUs on Amazon's cloud service to brute force 400 000 passwords per second. Smart, but a bit depressing really.

Been done before: <http://www.wpacracker.com/> ...on CPUs, at least. I wonder if wpacracker.com will update? [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]