The Linux Help and Tutorial Thread

[PoppaGeek]

okay and no vm im running this on a spare drive and just swap drives when doing this.



the toys that get you into trouble are mostly why im playing with this os. and im not looking to run boinc on it. im not really doing much but I hear about how easy it is to break into wireless and such some im gonna test securities of my network and a spare one that i have setup just for this, just bored and want to play around.



yes i realize that when running a vm you MUST use usb wireless nic becuase of the rights access such. its not that.



i want to the nic to work so i can play with the goodies included in this os. also eventually when i go to install ubuntu i will need it wireless as i want to have two of these in random places in my house and I only have 1 router and its in my bedroom.

looks like im just gona buy a wireless usb nic that works out of the box with this, its only 25$ and its truly plug and play.

If you are bored and want to learn by all means go for it.

But if you just want to know your WiFi is secure I can save you some time. Use WPA/WPA2 and a password 16 random characters long using lower and uppercase, numbers and special characters. abcd1234 takes my 1.6gz laptop 2 and half seconds to crack from a WPA dump. 54ae6B#4aD@cJJp2 will take 6 high end AMD GPUs several weeks at worst a week at best. 12 digits is probably enough but at 16 anyone willing to do what it takes to crack that password is going to get in no matter what you do.

I am looking for the article I got the info from and will update my numbers if they are off.

Well I can't find original article, it was on Ars Technica. But I found a spread sheet at a security blog with some numbers.

16 lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols in random pattern, no dictionary words, takes a max of 45,302,633,348,959 days to crack assuming 400,000,000,000 keyrate per seconds. Average number of days is about half that. A AMD 6990 can roughly do 9 billion a second. Anyway my point is use 12-16 character passwords using random characters, numbers and symbols and forget it.

The numbers can vary depending on hardware, crack program and method but it is agreed that at 12 characters you really want the password and at 16 you'll go elsewhere until technology improves some more.



25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours