Thursday, August 27, 2009

WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/27/180249/WPA-Encryption-Cracked-In-60-Seconds?from=rss

"Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken the attack to a new level. The earlier attack worked on a smaller range of WPA devices and took between 12 and 15 minutes to work. Both attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm."

To review WEP has been cracked for years now. WPA recently was cracked, which was then further optimized. WPA 2 or WPA with AES are still secure.

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