{"id":68,"date":"2007-04-04T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkesy.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/04\/wep-compromised-again\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T08:42:42","slug":"wep-compromised-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyparkes.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/04\/04\/wep-compromised-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WEP Compromised Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me your not using WEP for your wireless network?<\/p>\n<p>An article over on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/07\/04\/03\/2116239.shtml\" title=\"Slashdot WEP\">slashdot<\/a> reports that the attack to discover WEP keys has been optimised even futher and that a 104-bit key can be discovered using only 40,000 captured packets. Even further the key can then be cracked very quickly (about 3 seconds!) on any modern hardware<\/p>\n<p>The full article is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de\/aircrack-ptw\/\" title=\"Aircrack\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> including a white paper<\/p>\n<p>Interesting is that is mentions further down the page that 256-bit keys are <em>not<\/em> supported by this method. Even so what excuse is there for not using WPA (or even better WPA2 if your software\/hardware supports it) nowadays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please tell me your not using WEP for your wireless network? An article over on slashdot reports that the attack to discover WEP keys has been optimised even futher and that a 104-bit key can be discovered using only 40,000 captured packets. 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