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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. Arrested? by HaeMaker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Has he been arrested yet? I am sure some people are sending coypwrited material via 802.11...

  2. Uh oh ... by tbone1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let the 'rice' jokes begin. All hand to the puns!

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  3. crypto by twitter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get versed! Spend an hour or two with OpenBSD . They gotta liscence or two, hee hee. Now go forth and kick some ass, Hailman.

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  4. Can this be good? by phoenix_orb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that it can be. With the advent of encryption being broken in a week, maybe the standards groups..(ANSI, IEEE, etc..) can really start advocating a secure enviornment prior to the acceptance of a standard. Although wireless lan protocols have been compromised, will that stop people from using them? No. That is bad, because we all know MSFT will do nothing to help introduce any type of higher level encryption. I hope that the open source community will have an open source project in the works. I would really enjoy watching that happen. Is bandwidth a concern here, yes. 11mbs will work extremely well for many applications, but I would hate to have a large encryption scheme (working at layer 5 or above...) eating a whole ton of bandwith and proc cycles.

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  5. moderation abuse! by twitter · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    the article is about broken crypto.

    HaiLHaiL asked about crypto.

    the OpenBSD crypto page talks about encryption. How is that off topic?

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  6. Re:Don't bother with encryption by SilentChris · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I love comments like this AC's.

    "Make the world free for information. Napster rules! Information should be passed freely from person to person! Except on my computer, where I watch my information my hawk and noone, not even you, is allowed to see it."

    Double standard, anyone? :) Steven Levy's "Hackers": the original hacker system had no passwords. I invite everyone to read it.