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Re: [Full-disclosure] Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked
- To: "Ivan ." <ivanhec@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked
- From: Thierry Zoller <Thierry@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 18:37:45 +0100
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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Thierry Zoller
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