On 4/10/07, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This isn't that new. They've been able to break WEP for some time and always 
> pretty fast.

>From here:

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=121519&WT.svl=cmpnews2_2

"The researchers claim to be able to recover a 104 bit WEP key with
50% using just 40,000 captured packets (which they claim is about a
minute of capture time), only 85,000 packets were needed to achieve an
accuracy of about 95%. Compared to previous WEP cracking models, which
required anywhere from 500,000 to 6,000,000 packets, the work of Tews,
Pychkine and Weinmann is pretty impressive. "

That's 12.5 to 70 times faster, it seems.

Yes, WEP has always been insecure, it just became a lot more insecure
this weekend, and that's the "news"

Rick

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