WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 27, 2009 @06:38AM from the nicholas-cage-has-an-alibi dept.

carusoj writes "Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the attack to a new level. The earlier attack worked on a smaller range of WPA devices and took between 12 and 15 minutes to work. Both attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm."

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Re:Cool by MooseMuffin · 2009-08-27 06:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

You'll be able to provide more free wireless too!
Re:Secure protocols for home wifi? by Mad+Merlin · 2009-08-27 06:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

Wired ethernet. Not only is it vastly more secure, it's also an order of magnitude or two faster than wireless.

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