Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Erik Tews http://www.monien.net/blog Delphi Programming, .NET Philosophy, Web development and more ... Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:59:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 First Practical WPA Attack http://www.monien.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/first-practical-wpa-attack/ http://www.monien.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/first-practical-wpa-attack/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:15:34 +0000 Olaf Monien http://www.monien.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/first-practical-wpa-attack/ 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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