WEP, She Is Not So Secure, You Know

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

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xp-wep.gifAccording to researchers Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, and Andrei Pyshkin of Darmstadt Technical University it’s possible to crack a WEP key in about a minute. The trio proved that with a nice set of encoded data and a little processing power allows you to crack a 104-bit WEP key.

Didn’t we already know that WEP was useless?

WEP key wireless cracking made easy [TheRegister]

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