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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. damn! by gnurd · · Score: 5, Funny

    gonna have to re-run that cat-5 into the shitter after all.

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  2. It would mean free access... by DESADE · · Score: 4, Funny

    In metropolitan ares, tons of companies/individuals have 802.11 networks. Could he use this to have free access just about anywhere? I think Starbucks is installing 802.11 in all their stores. This would be nice.

  3. Master Locks broken by Mononoke · · Score: 5, Funny
    (reuters) Today in Pecos Texas a 15 year-old named Jim Carnes learned that by simple application of a large pair of bolt cutters, a Master Lock padlock can be rendered completely useless.

    Mr. Carnes goes on to proclaim "the storage building industry may as well give up. No one will want to trust leaving their old couches in those things now."

    In a related story: All over the nation, garages equipped with the Microsoft IIS Garage Door Opener have been opening spontaniously for more than 2 weeks. The owners don't seem to mind, though, as they gave up trying to actually use the garages due to their being built only wide enough to hold a Microsoft car, and nothing else.

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  4. Oh no ... by mz001b · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm using wireless right now. Good thing I'm not encrypted, or someone would be able to break it and snoop on me to see that I am reading /.

  5. damnit by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they going to arrest this guy too?

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  6. Call the FBI by r_j_prahad · · Score: 5, Funny

    The details of how he did it are in PDF format. Doesn't that make Adobe a party to the crime of distributing a circumvention device?