German hacker Thomas Roth’s announcement that he used Amazon.com’s cloud service to crack a wireless network security standard has left some security researchers scratching their heads. Others are merely shaking them in disbelief. That attack was launched against the SHA-1 hash algorithm. Roth’s conclusions are that the SHA-1 algorithm is not fit for password hashing, and the compute power offered by cloud services makes it cheap and easy to launch brute-force attacks on passwords.
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Hacker Shows How Cloud Could Wash Out Wireless Security
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 11, 2011 03:08 PMGerman hacker Thomas Roth’s announcement that he used Amazon.com’s cloud service to crack a wireless network security standard has left some security researchers scratching their heads. Others are merely shaking them in disbelief. That attack was launched against the SHA-1 hash algorithm. Roth’s conclusions are that the SHA-1 algorithm is not fit for password hashing, and the compute power offered by cloud services makes it cheap and easy to launch brute-force attacks on passwords.