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(copypasta from my reddit post here http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/11ugpg/cracking_wpa2_with_bitcoin/)

Hey, I'm set to go on stage at ToorCon in San Diego a bit later today to demo my new website. The service is a bit rough right now, but in general, you post a wpa2 handshake and send a bounty that I store in escrow, and then later someone comes along (maybe you!) cracks the hash, and receives the bitcoins, and then you get emailed with the passphrase.

I think that this is also especially good timing because with the shipping of ASIC miners and splitting of the block reward both coming soon, there will be a ton of people who want bitcoins and have garages full of GPUs.

http://hashbounty.net (the service)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GK71DI1QcOjtvdlgjSXkzWySmiDHLhNeTWTm3-92RZA/edit (my slides)

I'd be happy for any feedback. Thanks!

Interesting, btw google link is not working.

Edit: Nice presentation dude  ;D wish you good luck with the project

slides..  Sorry, the page (or document) you have requested does not exist.

whoopsie daisy, should be fixed now

This is great

Awesome, so far a bit cheaper than cloudcracker

Sure, you could probably set the bounty to .01 coins if you wanted, and someone is eventually going to find and crack it.

At the same time, someone might set a bounty for like 5 bitcoins, and then if you feel lucky, you can run the handshake against one of those services, and maybe get a hit.

This is a pretty cool idea :)
I like how the submitter sets the price

Indeed, good idea.. I'll give it a try :)

That is a cool and original idea man. Nice Job!

Any transaction have been completed between 2 party on this web site ?

I'm actually trying an hash on a 5770.. I'll give it a try for few days.. may be will pay more than mining btc, maybe will cost me few pennies of electricity ;)

Hope to see this besome more popular, and a kind of maket establishing some volume !

I may submit my neightboor hash.. for the fun :)

p.s. my wifi is unprotected and named linksys ;`)

Not too many with actual bounties listed but I went through and gave a few of them a try.  As far as I can tell http://www.hashbounty.net/download?id=35001 (http://www.hashbounty.net/download?id=35001) seems to be solvable with the password "pingpong" but the site says it is an invalid solution.  Can someone verify if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a problem with the site checking?

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I think this is pretty awesome,


I confirmed the solution is also pingpong. Site says that bounty was solved, though. Did you or someone else get the bounty? I tried 100k of the rocky password list through all of the open ones and cracked none.

Looks like the site is down now. Super cool project, would love to have a go. Seems like some huge bounties.

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