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Title should also include the price - $35 for the most exhaustive search.

This kind of speed has been around for a while - at the cost of a $50,000 FPGA box (eg, http://www.picocomputing.com/). Too expensive for the home user, but I'm guessing the NSA have spent way more, and have much faster computers.

A brute force on WPA is also very parallelizable which makes it easy to throw more machines at the problem.



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