This only affects people using passwords like
'mysupersecretwpapassword'. Use a real, 63-character key consisting of
upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, and your password
will still take a million years to crack. The first comment on the
slashdot post is insightful.

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Terry Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:54 PM 10/12/2008, you wrote:
>
> According to this, it is now practical to crack WPA.
>
> http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/12/1724230
>
> I was not happy when LSU started using WPA on their network because it is
> not
> end to end encryption and provides only an illusion of security.  So much
> for
> the illusion.  I wonder if LSU will back down on WPA now.
>
> WPA has been worthless for a long time.  Do they support WPA2?
>
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