Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #275

From:	"Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked - Network World
Date:	Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:22:41 +1100
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: Thought this might be of interest: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110608-once-thought-safe-wpa-wi-fi.html?ts0hb&story=ts_wpahack <http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110608-once-thought-safe-wpa-wi-fi.html?ts0hb&story=ts_wpahack> Cheers, everyone. Back to the grindstone... Reading the article this is only a partial crack and only applies to WPA1 using TKIP keys, not WPA2 that I think most looking for security would use nowadays. The question is if the same methods used to crack TKIP on WPA1 means there's a chance of cracking protocols running on WPA2 in the future ? Perhaps we should only run over WiFi links while inside a VPN tunnel ? Of course external hot spots at cafes and the like are the greatest security hole as then often don't have any encryption at all ! Cheers/2 Ed.

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