On 04 April 2007 00:44, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Not that WEP has been considered remotely secure for some time, but
> the best crack is now down to 40,000 packets for a 50% chance of
> cracking the key.
>
> http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aircrack-ptw/
Sorry, is that actually better than "The final nail in WEP's coffin", which
IIUIC can get the entire keystream (who needs the key?) in log2(nbytes) packet
exchanges (to oversimplify a bit, but about right order-of-magnitude)?
cheers,
DaveK
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