full-disclosure - Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:03:11 +1100
From: "Ivan ." <ivanhec@...il.com>
To: "Full-Disclosure mailing list" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

To do this, Tews and his co-researcher Martin
Beck<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Martin+Beck>found
a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by
WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes, according
to Dragos
Ruiu<http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Dragos+Ruiu>,
the PacSec conference's organizer.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9119258

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