http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1814

"Tools that changed everything

On August 8th, 2004, a hacker named KoreK posted new WEP statistical
cryptanalysis attack code (soon to become a tool called chopper) to the
NetStumbler forums. While chopper is functional, it is not currently
maintained, and the attacks have since seen better implementations in
aircrack and WepLab. However, the KoreK attacks change everything. No longer
are millions of packets required to crack a WEP key; no longer does the
number of obviously "weak" or "interesting" IVs matter. With the new
attacks, the critical ingredient is the total number of unique IVs captured,
and a key can often be cracked with hundreds of thousands of packets, rather
than millions."




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Frank Keeney
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