Too bad the Apple Airport Express is WEP only. When faced with the choice of Tivo or security, I choose Tivo.
-Cameron On 4/10/07, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232234 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
