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Bitcoin => Mining speculation => Topic started by: smellymoo on May 19, 2013, 02:12:16 PM



Title: using hardware to crack wpa for money
Post by: smellymoo on May 19, 2013, 02:12:16 PM
I am considering setting up a website that brings ex-miners a way to make money cracking WPA passwords for penetration testing.

what I was thinking, is making it like an ebay for hash cracking, post a bounty for a hash, and then anyone can complete it for the bounty.

I know one site exists, but it is fairly dead and no work has been done on it.

do you think anyone would be interested in putting there GPU stacks to good use and earning bounties on WPA password cracking?


Title: Re: using hardware to crack wpa for money
Post by: Operatr on May 22, 2013, 01:19:41 PM
What you propose is fraudulent and illegal, begone!

Er..probably should have responded when I was fully awake enough to read OP...

But it seems the need for GPU rigs is still present as ever, they can always be relegated to the lesser coins of which there are several.


Title: Re: using hardware to crack wpa for money
Post by: billotronic on May 22, 2013, 03:55:24 PM
What you propose is fraudulent and illegal, begone!

well, legality is questionable. Many reputable pen testing groups/consultants rely on online distributed brute forcing to achieve their ends. Wether to enlighten a client about the dangers of wireless etc.

The more appropriate response was that there is already MANY established services online for such things and I doubt coming in late in the game would be profitable.