Paper Published on Breaking WPA TKIP
Two German university researchers have discovered a combination of techniques that could allow an attacker to compromise Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption in less than 15 minutes. The attack does not result in the encryption key being discovered. Rather, the technique allows attackers “to decrypt packets and inject packets with custom content.” Martin Beck and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Distributed Password Cracking Tool for WPA/WPA2
Russian security company Elcomsoft just posted a press release (original PDF) detailing a new method to crack WPA and WPA2 keys:
With the latest version of Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery, it is now possible to crack WPA and WPA2 protection on Wi-Fi networks up to 100 times quicker with the use of massively parallel computational power [...]
