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11
2008
First Practical WPA Attack
Posted by: Olaf Monien in Miscellaneous, tags: Attack, encryption, encryption methods, Erik Tews, Martin Beck, wep, WLAN, wpaMartin Beck and Erik Tews are presenting the (probably) first practical attack against WPA:
http://dl.aircrack-ng.org/breakingwepandwpa.pdf
The described attack is a bit limited, but it’s interesting (and maybe scary) anyway.
WPA is the “safe” successor of WEP, which are encryption methods for wireless LANs. WEP is known to be easily hackable since quite a while.

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