R. A. Hettinga
Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:34:15 -0800
At 9:35 AM -0800 2/5/01, Jurgen Botz wrote: > Slashdot this morning reported on a ZD-Net article at: > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2681947,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews0 > 1 > which states that there are major holes in IEEE 802.11 "WEP" encryption. > > Does anyone have any more details on this? http://www.vmeng.com/mc/debrief00.html, and grep for WEP, although Vinnie hasn't gotten the slides from Nikita Borosov yet, it looks like, but I bet they'll be there soon, now :-)... Nikita's talk at mac-crypto last week was entirely coincident to the slashdotted ZDNet story, I'm sure, :-), though I wouldn't be completely surprised that ZeroKnowlege's PR folks stirred the pot there as well. I can't wait to see if Schneier calls this a "publicity attack". (Nawwwww, Jon Callas was there, and he'd have said something, I'm sure, so I'd say ZKS has been offically inoculated from such a scandalous accusation...) The above remarkable cooincidence, coupled with the "impromptu lecture" from conference floor by Apple's entirely defeatist :-) export-lawyer, which appeared the Guardian story this morning, means, I suppose, mac-crypto's now officially influential, if not exactly famous... Of course, Vinnie, and I sicced Paul on poor Ian to bring himself, or or send someone like Nikita, after Paul saw Ian's recent Bay-Area cypherpunks meeting talk on the same subject, and said we *had* to have a talk on their total WEP-crack this year. Moral: use end-to-end encryption, IPSec (PGPNet, other stuff), for instance. Anyway, a good time was had by all, and Nikita, -- followed by the talk that Andrew did with MojoNation running in System X after some immediately-burned midnight oil -- completely stole the show this year. A great time was had by all, wish you were there, see you next time, and all that... :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'