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"Fast Packet Keying" Improvements to WEP

Weedstock writes: "BBC Tech News has an article about the latest development in wireless networking security. It seems that RSA Security has improved the encryption system used by the protocol. Will this new update finally make wireless networking secure? You can also find a list of papers about wireless security issues here." RSA has a press release about their changes to WEP being accepted by the 802.11 committee.

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  1. h000000t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  2. modem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post at 14.4Kbps

  3. No more goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. taco girl? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. question for micheal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Michael, will this new "Fast Packet Keying" make it easier for you to censor people?

  6. Re:Don't embed engryption.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (-1) Redundent to all HELL

  7. important news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NEW YORK -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said Saturday that New York should spend millions of dollars on the city's homeless, not a pair of new baseball stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets.
    "I call on Mayor-elect Bloomberg to build housing for people, not stadiums for recreation," Sharpton told several hundred worshippers at his National Action Network in Harlem.

    On Friday, just days before leaving office, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced a tentative $1.6 billion deal to build new retractable roof ballparks in Queens and the Bronx to replace aging Shea and Yankee stadiums. The costs would be split evenly between the city and the teams.

    Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg has reacted cautiously to the Giuliani plan, saying that he first needs to see how the city's economy recovers from the Sept. 11 attacks.

    Sharpton blasted Giuliani for placing the needs of wealthy sports teams above the city's rising homeless population. The Coalition for the Homeless reported last month that there are now nearly 30,000 homeless adults and children in New York City shelters -- an all-time high.

    But if the stadiums are constructed, Sharpton said, the city should use affirmative action to ensure that minority contractors have a hand in the lucrative work.

    "When you get to building stadiums make sure you build them with everyone in town involved," he said.

    If the deal moves forward, the Mets could open their new park in 2006, while the Yankees' new stadium would be ready in 2007.

    Sharpton's remarks come after a midtown Manhattan church filed a lawsuit to block city police from arresting homeless people that it has permitted to sleep on its steps and sidewalk. A federal judge on Friday extended a temporary order that barred the city from carting away the homeless outside the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

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  9. Nearly the new year! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A year full of trolls, cowards and goatse.cx links!

  10. Re:Don't embed engryption.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Concrete evidence of these holes?

  11. Re:Don't embed engryption.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Besides this?

  12. Re:Don't embed engryption.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please stop posting that link.

  13. This is so fucking old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    News? This is fucking ancient history bastards! God I hate this room.

  14. Re:Don't embed engryption.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why? You getting tired of wanking it off already?

  15. Re:Fast packet keying again ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget, soon we're going to be able to pay michael et al. to be incompetent by buying a Slashdot subscription!

  16. Re:Fast packet keying again ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    is there an article somewhere saying this?

  17. Re:Fast packet keying again ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Remember, the Slashdot team really cares!

    They care so much they dont even read the damn site.

    They care so much they refuse to work on simple problems like this and eliminate duplicates.

    What the hell do they do all day? Try to sell ads?

  18. Re:Fast packet keying again ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure this will be moderated down as flamebait or a troll. Stop, think about it, how true is it?

    Don't just moderate down dissenting opinion, think about its validity.