WPS could have been fine, in that it would have forced an online attack that took an infeasible amount of time.
It just didn't accomplish that. My thinking is that they'll get this property back into WPS with some sort of blinding of the half-break state, but I haven't dug into the vuln enough to be sure. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Gage Bystrom <[email protected]> wrote: > Is be surprised if anyone related to security actually thought WPS was > remotely safe, bout time some actually released a public tool to brute it > though :P > > On Dec 29, 2011 2:02 AM, "Craig Heffner" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday, Stefan published a paper describing a vulnerability in WPS that > allows attackers to recover WPA/WPA2 keys in a matter of hours > (http://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setup-pin-brute-force-vulnerability/). > > Code has been posted to implement the attack: > http://www.tacnetsol.com/news/2011/12/28/cracking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver.html > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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