01-08-2013, 01:59 AM
hey all
i have been reading up about hashcat and looking at some of the stats and have a question about WPA crunching ability via brute force.
my router is set with a password that is 10 characters long, each one a random letter. let's say for the sake of argument that they are lower case to simplify it, so if i am not mistaken, this means that there are 141167095653376 combinations to check via brute force. if i use a radeon hd 7970 and go through ~130k/s this means it should take 1085900735.7952 seconds or 12,568 days - ie. my home setup is safe, even if someone is using a pretty powerful setup? or am I missing something fundamental here...
thanks in advance
i have been reading up about hashcat and looking at some of the stats and have a question about WPA crunching ability via brute force.
my router is set with a password that is 10 characters long, each one a random letter. let's say for the sake of argument that they are lower case to simplify it, so if i am not mistaken, this means that there are 141167095653376 combinations to check via brute force. if i use a radeon hd 7970 and go through ~130k/s this means it should take 1085900735.7952 seconds or 12,568 days - ie. my home setup is safe, even if someone is using a pretty powerful setup? or am I missing something fundamental here...
thanks in advance