ATI, NVIDIA and WPA/WPA2 passwords

April 10th, 2009 by Vladimir Katalov
Category: «Hardware», «Passwords & Human Factor», «Software», «Tips & Tricks»

In case if you missed it: new ATI Catalyst drivers (9.4) now available (you can read the release notes for details). For some reason, some driver files have been renamed (well, not in 9.4, but in 9.3 released a bit earlier, though that version was really buggy and we cannot recommend to use it anyway), and our WPA password recovery (audit) software was not able to recognize Radeon cards anymore.

Well, to make the long story short: simply download the latest ATI Catalyst drivers and updated Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor :). Just note that this (new) version of EWSA will not work with drivers version 9.1 or older.

In the meantime, NVIDIA CUDA 2.2 (beta) released. Does that actually matter? Yes, because NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and S1070 are now officially supported on Windows. Besides, we need to have a look at Zero-copy support for direct access to system memory, because it may speed-up the GPU-enabled password cracking on some particular algorithms.