WIFI security (and more) cracked using Elcom Distributed Password Recovery software and NVIDIA GPUs

Sold as a “password recovery” solution for $600 (5 clients) to $5000 (2500 clients), Elcom Distributed Password Recovery is a software that allows its users to crack passwords from many applications. Among the “crackable” formats: Microsoft Office, PGD (PGP Disk with conventional encryption), OpenDocument, PDF (user and owner passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more (list below in the full post).

Among these, a few are cracked even faster, thanks to the massive parallelism of the graphics processor (GPU): Office, Windows login, MD5, WPA and WPA2. It basically means that they can be cracked 20 or 100 times faster than without the GPU!

Now I know what you’re thinking: free WIFI all the time… but before your , remember that this software is (publicly) intended at “recovering” your own passwords only…