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Cracking the WLAN

April 4th, 2007 by

I previously reported that the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption scheme could be broken in 3 minutes.  Now researchers have reduced this to 1 minute, the most effective attack yet.  Visit the Bruce Schneier blog for the link to the paper in PDF format.  It’s really time to upgrade or reconfigure that home network.

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One Response to “Cracking the WLAN”

  1. Raul Siles Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    This is an awesome research improvement (and tool) that can (and must) be used as an eye opener to switch to WPA/WPA2!

    For those interested in some quick practical testing, check these two RaDaJo blog posts:
    http://radajo.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-else-do-you-need-not-to-use-wep.html
    http://radajo.blogspot.com/2007/04/breaking-40-bit-wep-in-less-than-30.html
    –
    Raul Siles

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