WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds

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

[Chapter80]

oops.. did i say Thai. I meant Taiwanese. duh to me.

Re:Secure protocols for home wifi?

[kryptKnight]

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

Comments like this show up in nearly every thread about wifi, and it's about time people stop modding them up. Ethernet is not a direct substitute for wireless networking. If it was, wifi never would have been invented.

The advantages of wireless are pretty obvious, and the disadvantages are pretty minimal. The 600 Mbits/sec an n-router provides is more than enough for most uses, and most people don't actually need unbreakable encryption.

Of course wired LAN is still relevant, but suggesting everyone revert just because is trite and pointless.