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[Full-disclosure] Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked
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- Subject: [Full-disclosure] Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked
- From: "Ivan ." <ivanhec@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:03:11 +1100
To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin
Beck<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Martin+Beck>found
a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by
WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according
to Dragos
Ruiu<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Dragos+Ruiu>,
the PacSec conference's organizer.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119258
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