First WEP, Now WPA Encryption Falls | Linux Today

First WEP, Now WPA Encryption Falls

Written By
AP
Andy Patrizio
Aug 28, 2009

“A pair of researchers in Japan said that they developed a way
to break WPA encryption in about one minute — and will show how at
a conference there next month.

“WPA’s viability has been in doubt since late 2008, when
security researchers Martin Beck and Erik Tews demonstrated the
ability to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) that
provides WPA security within 15 minutes.”


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