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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. 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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  2. 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.