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.
Voice of VOIPSA
Collective thoughts and musings on the state of VoIP security today.
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
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Raul Siles