Editing ElcomSoft (section)

== Cracking Wi-Fi passwords with GPUs ==
In 2009 ElcomSoft released a tool that takes [[Wi-Fi Protected Access|WPA/WPA2]] Hash Codes and uses [[Brute-force attack|brute-force methods]] to guess the password associated with a wireless network.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/t/41491.aspx | title=HotHardware Forums}}</ref>

The advantages of using such methods over the traditional ones, such as [[rainbow table]]s,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/coWPAttyMain.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326001431/http://wirelessdefence.org/Contents/coWPAttyMain.htm |archive-date=2012-03-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> are numerous.{{how|date=May 2024}}