From comp.risks -- Apparently, the "CUDA" parallel language is good for something mathematical, after all. I understand that (at least) one of these ;nVidia chips is found in every Macbook Pro laptop, so perhaps this cracking can be done sitting in a Starbucks or an airport.
--- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:21:47 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed Russian security company Elcomsoft posted a press release on 12 Oct 2008 detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys: With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power of the newest NVIDIA chips. Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery only needs a few packets intercepted in order to perform the attack. ... http://securityandthe.net/2008/10/12/russian-researchers-achieve-100-fold-in... http://www.prweb.com/releases/wi-fi/cracking/prweb1405954.htm http://securityandthe.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/elcom_pressrelease_wpa....