Jason,

There is an assumption in my answer that I forgot to mention:

One can decrypt the traffic of another user with WPA2-PSK  if one knows the 
passphrase of that particular WPA2-PSK network.
This doesn't mean that WPA2-PSK is broken, but that in a large environment 
where everyone knows
the passphrase then the encryption key of a user can be retrieved if the first 
4 way hand shake of that user can be captured.
(think roaming between APs!).

Also, if you do WPA2-PSK rather than WPA2-enterprise ...  you cannot do eduroam 
;-)

Best,

Philippe

Philippe Hanset
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us>


On Apr 18, 2013, at 10:29 PM, "Becker, Jason" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Thanks Philippe, we currently are using 802.1x  and meant to just ask about the 
psk.

Thanks!

From: <Hanset>, Philippe C <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:28 PM
To: 
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Is it possible to crack a WPA2 Enterprise network

Jason,

Your subject mentions WPA2-enterprise, and the body of your text mentions PSK.

If you move your infrastructure to WPA2-PSK, yes if someone watches the 4 way 
handshake they can get the key between AP and device for
all people on the WPA2-PSK network.
With WPA2-enterprise it is more complicated since each user has a key per 
session and you can also change the rekeying interval.
There are some papers out there showing that they can crack WPA2-enterprise but 
it seems like a lot of work

Philippe

Philippe Hanset
www.eduroam.us<http://www.eduroam.us/>


On Apr 18, 2013, at 4:22 PM, "Becker, Jason" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

We planned to move to a psk ssid but have heard that it is possible to decrypt 
this traffic if you have the key and watch the 4 way handshake to get the key 
between the ap and device.

Has anyone run into this or been able to do this?



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