Re: How safe / unsafe is Free Open WiFi?

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2008-03-11 Nick Duda wrote:
> Not to go off topic too much, but my understanding is that WEP, while
> it can be cracked is still hard to crack for the average home based on
> the number of WEP packets that you need to capture in order to crack
> WEP. Cracking it on a corporate network with lots of WEP activity
> would be easier.
>
> Is this not the case anymore?

It isn't, because the attacker can induce as much traffic as he needs.
Also the number of packets required for a successful attack has
dramatically decreased (see [1]).

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/120.pdf

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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