Pyrit allows one to create massive databases, pre-computing part of the WPA/WPA2-PSK authentication phase in a space-time-tradeoff. Exploiting the computational power of many-core- and other platforms through ATI-Stream, Nvidia CUDA, OpenCL, and VIA Padlock, it is currently by far the most powerful attack against one of the world's most used security-protocols.

This package contains the basic version of Pyrit, with support for MMX, SSE2 and VIA PADLOCK detected at run-time. Support for the non-free technologies Nvidia CUDA, ATI-Stream, and OpenCL can be added through extensions. If packaged, these should be available in the contrib section with names in the form of "pyrit-*.