[dustyjay]

"Security researchers say they've developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks."

http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/...hought-sa.html

[JohnWill]

Bummer! I guess I'll have to get a Linksys router with DD-WRT and run the RADIUS server.

[dustyjay]

Personally I am not at the moment running a wireless router. All Ethernet. But it was only a matter of time before this happened.

[rob.rice]

those guys at the times are 6 months be hind the times that I know of
a program has been around for 6 months at lest to do this

[Speakersrock]

Originally Posted by dustyjay

Personally I am not at the moment running a wireless router. All Ethernet. But it was only a matter of time before this happened.

Yup, you are too right there, It was deffinitly going to happen wasnt it, and proberbly will for atleast a few more generations of the technollagy.

[lotuseclat79]

Battered, but not broken: understanding the WPA crack (2 web pages)

Don't hyperventilate yet; you're (mostly) safe

-- Tom

[JohnWill]

That looks pretty harmless for most home networks for now. Also, since AES is immune to the hack, that's an easy upgrade for anyone that is worried.

[avisitor]

If they manage to crack the AES encryption algorithms we're in for a heck of a lot more trouble then getting our wifi stolen.

[JohnWill]

Well, they didn't really crack the TKIP encryption, just exploited a chink in the armor.