full-disclosure - Re: Fwd: WiFi is no longer a viable secure connection

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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:50:03 +0200
From: Cedric Blancher <blancher@...tel-securite.fr>
To: Anshuman G <anshu.pg@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Fwd: WiFi is no longer a viable
	secure	connection

Le samedi 11 octobre 2008 à 09:08 +0530, Anshuman G a écrit :

> I have turned off SSID broadcast and its pretty obscure, the password
> is obscure too, its WPA personal, i think its impossible to crack/get
> in my router without knowing SSID :D .

But your SSID is very easy to retrieve, as it is leaked every time you
associate a legitimate box to your wlan... And guess what: the regular
process of cracking a WPA PSK implies disassociating a client to sniff
the 4-way handshake. Doing this, the attacker will also sniff SSID
cleartext in the air.

Which means: *do not* rely on SSID cloaking for your security.

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