Wi-Fi WPA TKIP Key Exploited by Researchers
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on November 6, 2008
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Via Slashdot:
Researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck ‘have just opened the box on a whole new hacker playground, says Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec conference. At the conference, Tews will show how he was able to partially crack WPA encryption in order to read data being sent from a router to a laptop. To do this, Tews and Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key, used by WPA, in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes. They have not, however, managed to crack the encryption keys used to secure data that goes from the PC to the router in this particular attack. ‘Its just the starting point,’ said Ruiu.
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