[Cialug] Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds

[Nathan Stien]

On 4/4/07, Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> From Bruce Schneier's blog:
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/breaking_wep_in.html
>

Thanks for posting that -- I somehow lost Schneier's RSS feed from my
reader, and it's good to be reminded he exists.

As for the link itself, that's pretty interesting, but surely everyone
[in industry] knows WEP sucks by now?  It's crippled by that beacon
frame known-plaintext attack, and just making your keys longer merely
makes it incrementally less convenient to crack.  Anyone who wants in
can still blow right through it like a screen door.  Seems like
wireless routers should come with warning stickers...


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