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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. Straight from Kuro5hin by HEbGb · · Score: 2, Troll

    They beat slashdot to the punch, even though slashdot appears to have attempted to cover this before:

    Yesterday's article from Kuro5hin quoted below:

    This recent Slashdot article has links to the technical details. (Inexplicably, that article didn't appear on the Slashdot's front page and awareness of this problem has lagged.) The hardware and resource requirements for this new attack are trivial: pretty much anyone with a wireless Ethernet card can compromise WEP.

    Hmm, gaining a few leads from k5, huh Michael? Should have gotten it on the front page correctly the first time.