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Cracking of WPA & WPA2 Using GPUs and Rule‐based Method
Tien‐Ho Chang1, Chia‐Mei Chen2, Han‐Wei Hsiao3, Gu‐Hsin Lai4
1 PhD student, Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2 Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
3 Associate Professor, University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
4 Assistant Professor, Taiwan Police College, Taipei, Taiwan
* Corresponding Author: Tien‐Ho Chang,
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing 2019, 25(1), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.31209/2018.100000054
Abstract
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) are two
security protocols developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer
networks. The prevailing usage of GPUs improves the brute force attacks and
cryptanalysis on access points of the wireless networks. It is time-consuming
for the cryptanalysis with the huge total combinations of 9563 max. Now, it is
the turning point that the leap progress of GPUs makes the Wi-Fi cryptanalysis
much more efficient than before. In this research, we proposed a rule-based
password cracking scheme without dictionary files which improves the efficiency
of cracking WPA/WPA2 protected access points. The experiment was performed
on the real environment and the results demonstrate that the proposed
scheme. The proposed scheme improves the efficiency from 2088000 PMKs/min
to 16200000 PMKs/min.
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Cite This Article
T. Chang, C. Chen, H. Hsiao and G. Lai, "Cracking of wpa & wpa2 using gpus and rule‐based method,"
Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 25, no.1, pp. 183–192, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31209/2018.100000054