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Wireless LAN Encryption Standard Broken

Posted by michael on from the sekrit-decodur-ring dept.

doug13 writes: "A Rice University student cracks 802.11x encryption protocol in a week. Here is how he did it." We mentioned the cryptographic paper that underlies this attack a few days ago.

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  1. Suprise, suprise... by srvivn21 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Has anyone claimed that WEP is secure? I've heard notihing but complaints about its unsecure nature, and now that someone has broken the "protection" is it really news?

    My congratulations to Adam (Stubblefield. The guy who "earned the distinction of being the first to implement a devastating new attack...") on "all" his "hard" work. ;o) I sure couldn't have done it.