WEP Broken Even Worse 393
collin.m writes in with news of results out of Darmstadt. Erik Tews and others there have demonstrated how to recover a 104-bit WEP key in under a minute, requiring the capture of fewer than 10% the number of packets the previous best method called for. The paper is here (PDF). Quoting: "We were able to extend Klein's attack and optimize it for usage against WEP. Using our version, it is possible to recover a 104 bit WEP key with probability 50% using just 40,000 captured packets... for 85,000 data packets [the success probability is] about 95%... 40,000 packets can be captured in less than one minute under good condition. The actual computation takes about 3 seconds and 3 MB main memory on a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz..."
Back in the courtroom (Score:5, Funny)
Case Dismissed!
Re:Can ARC4 be used properly at all? (Score:5, Funny)
No problem for me (Score:5, Funny)
Today on duh news. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple, cheap, easy solution (Score:1, Funny)
btw were you smoking crack when you wrote that post?
Re:Can ARC4 be used properly at all? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who even still users WEP? (Score:5, Funny)
Is your sister cute? Does she have pictures of herself on her computer?
Broken Even Worse?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who even still users WEP? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Simple, cheap, easy solution (Score:3, Funny)
CAT5 Total Price*: $393
Having your network compromised and your identity stolen: Priceless
Re:Can ARC4 be used properly at all? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who even still users WEP? (Score:2, Funny)
You've missed the point several by orders of magnitude more than I have ever seen on /. before! In fact, if the point were to travel at the speed of light it probably won't hit you until we're talking about WPA+PSK being broken in minutes.
Re:Can ARC4 be used properly at all? (Score:5, Funny)
Your use of past tense is all the more curious.
Re:Who even still users WEP? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Can ARC4 be used properly at all? (Score:2, Funny)