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27 August 2009, 15:13
Attack on WPA refined
First introduced in November 2008, a method for cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard has been refined by Japanese researchers. The attack now works with any implementation and requires far less time to succeed.
The aim of the attack is to determine the keystream for communication between the Access Point (AP) and the client – without knowledge of the original key. Further packets from the AP to the client can be decrypted with relatively little effort. With the keystream, attackers can encrypt their own packets and send them to a client, for instance to divert further traffic using falsified ARP or ICMP packets.
More:
http://www.h-online.com/security/Attack-on...d--/news/114105
Attack on WPA refined
First introduced in November 2008, a method for cracking the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard has been refined by Japanese researchers. The attack now works with any implementation and requires far less time to succeed.
The aim of the attack is to determine the keystream for communication between the Access Point (AP) and the client – without knowledge of the original key. Further packets from the AP to the client can be decrypted with relatively little effort. With the keystream, attackers can encrypt their own packets and send them to a client, for instance to divert further traffic using falsified ARP or ICMP packets.
More:
http://www.h-online.com/security/Attack-on...d--/news/114105