OT: unathorized network user.

[John Summerfield]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:24:09 +0900
> John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> WEP's good for about two minutes these days.
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> What should you do to protect access to your wireless network?
> 

Anything newer. WPA for example.

For those not in the know, WEP was found to be weak quite some time 
(years) ago, but known attacks required a few gigabytes of data.

More recently an active attack has been found, it involves injecting 
stuff and examining the encrypted data that comes back. Code's readily 
available, and a google aimed at theregister.co.uk should find a better 
explanation than you'll get out of me and a link to a paper and some code.



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Cheers
John

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