Aloha! On 2011-11-27 21:10 , Steven Bellovin wrote: > Does anyone know of any (verifiable) examples of non-government enemies > exploiting flaws in cryptography? I'm looking for real-world attacks on > short key lengths, bad ciphers, faulty protocols, etc., by parties other > than governments and militaries. I'm not interested in academic attacks > -- I want to be able to give real-world advice -- nor am I looking for > yet another long thread on the evils and frailties of PKI.
How about Wep0ff and friends that break WEP? AFAIK used in the wild by curious individuals. http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/01/wep0ff-wireless-wep-key-cracker-tool/ http://wepcrack.sourceforge.net/ -- Med vänlig hälsning, Yours Joachim Strömbergson - Alltid i harmonisk svängning. ======================================================================== Kryptoblog - IT-säkerhet på svenska http://www.strombergson.com/kryptoblog ========================================================================
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