Re: WPA attack improved to 1min, MITM

[Mike Patterson <mpatters () ist uwaterloo ca>]

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Dragos Ruiu wrote on 8/25/09 10:11 PM:
> The Beck/Tews WiFi WPA attack presented at PacSec has been improved
> (down to 1 min, MITM) by 2 .jp researchers (Ohigashi, Morii)
> http://bit.ly/clCpm Remember: avoid WPA/TKIP and force AES only
> encryption in WPA2 - don't let your access point automatically fall back
> automatically to the insecure TKIP/WPA mode, to be safe. (At least until
> any WPA2 attacks are published ;-P)

At the risk of sounding like a troll, this paper looks suspiciously like
one of those stuffy old useless academic style papers that Dave warned
us about a month or so ago.  I don't see any links to conference
proceedings in the sidebar on the page, but that's about all that's
missing.  There's even a (useful!) abstract published.  How academy is that?

Could it be that perhaps the anti-academics with chips on shoulders
about ivory towers aren't entirely correct?  Or is this a spasm of the
dieing[sic] brontosaurus?

Mike

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