Website Offers to Crack WPA Networks in 20 Minutes

WPA Cracker is a cloud cracking service which claims to be able to crack a WPA-PSK protected wireless network in 20 minutes. The website aims to be a useful tool for penetration testers and network auditors.

WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes, for only $17.