ElcomSoft is using the new-generation NVIDIA (
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ElcomSoft's patent-pending GPU acceleration technology has been implemented in Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery. The integration allows using laptop, desktop or server computers equipped with supported NVIDIA video cards to break Wi-Fi encryption up to 100 times faster than by using CPU only.
Company officials further explain that Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery has the ability to support both WPA and the newer WPA2 encryption used in the majority of Wi-Fi networks.
With NVIDIA graphic accelerators support, the recovery speed is increased by an average of 10 to 15 times when Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is used on a moderate laptop with NVIDIA GeForce 8800M or 9800M series GPU, or up to 100 times when running on a desktop with two or more NVIDIA GTX 280 boards installed.
The vastly increased speed of breaking Wi-Fi protection provided by Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery is expected to benefit governments, forensic and corporate users.
Targeted for forensic and government agencies, data and password recovery services, and corporate users, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery provides massively parallel operation and linear scalability with no overhead.
Featuring patent-pending acceleration technologies, Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery offers demanding users the fastest password recovery by a huge margin.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha’s article, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi