![]() However, it had a hole, which is now well known, and tools like reaver can exploit it in a single line statement. Now basically it was meant to make WPA even tougher to crack, and much easier to configure (push a button on router and device connects). With this in mind, a new security measure was introduced to compliment WPA. But it was not over yet, as the new WPA technology was not at all easy for the users to configure. And finally the security folks were at peace. Rainbow tables are known to speed things up, by completing a part of the guessing job beforehand, but the output rainbow table that needs to be downloaded from the net is disastrously large (can be 100s of GBs sometimes). An exhaustive bruteforce including all the alphabets (uppercase lowercase) and numbers, may take years, depending on password length. A dictionary attack may take days, and still might not succeed. Now hacking WPA/WPA2 is a very tedious job in most cases. ![]() When it was known that a WEP network could be hacked by any kid with a laptop and a network connection (using easy peasy tutorials like those on our blog), the security guys did succeed in making a much more robust security measure WPA/WPA2.
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