Re: Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

[Thierry Zoller <Thierry () Zoller lu>]

Dear Ivan .,

WPA is not cracked, a way was found to brute TKIP.
This does not result in the data stream being decrypted by the way

WPA AES CCMP - is safe afaik.

I> To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin
I> Beck<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Martin+Beck>found
I> a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by
I> WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according
I> to Dragos
I> Ruiu<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Dragos+Ruiu>,
I> the PacSec conference's organizer.

I> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119258



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