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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. This ain't new people by analog_line · · Score: 4, Redundant
    The company I used to work for makes 802.11 hardware. A couple-three months ago they sent out an e-mail saying that every 802.11 wireless network demployed in the company, including home-LANs that people use to access remotely were to be taken offline indefinitely.

    That pretty much convinced me it was junk. I'll stick to copper for anything I particularly care about, thanks.