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11 11 2008

First Practical WPA Attack

Posted by: Olaf Monien in Miscellaneous, tags: Attack, encryption, encryption methods, Erik Tews, Martin Beck, wep, WLAN, wpa

Martin 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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Rif 1 month ago 1 point
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"save" should be "safe".

When I spell in DE, I am neither sure about when to use V and when to use F :-).

Doei RIF

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Olaf Monien 1 month ago 1 point
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Ah, yes. Thanks!

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Olaf Monien
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Xepol 1 month ago 1 point
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It was my understanding that TKIP's insecurity was a long standing matter of common knowledge with AES being the highly prefered method for anyone who had a clue to turn on wireless security in the first place.

That said, you had to meet a *LOT* of very specific criteria to fall foul of their attack.

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Olaf Monien 1 month ago 1 point
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True, the question is though, if they will find ways now to decrease the number of prerequisites.

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Mark 1 month ago 1 point
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Thanks for the heads up.

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