New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute

[Puppy]

New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... n_a_minute

Both attacks work only on WPA systems that use the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) algorithm. They do not work on newer WPA 2 devices or on WPA systems that use the stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.

[killer]

That's scary.

[Marin85]

I believe they are still quite too far from breaking WPA in practice

-> http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=5983.0
-> http://forums.remote-exploit.org/wirele ... roken.html

The paper proposes improvements of the already known Beck-Tews attack (see tkiptun-ng) (one of the authors being a developer of aircrack-ng) but nothing that I would say is close to the title of your post "WPA-TKIP Broken Completely". If you think that you're going to break WPA as easy as WEP with this paper, don't hold your breath.

One of the problems which promotes misinformation on the actual status of the WPA standard and its security is overblown thread titles which don't accurately describe the attack or status of the attack by overenthusiastic people who haven't taken the time to actually research what a particular finding or discovery means in reality. It's like all those news reports about finding some new cure for something which never pans out in the end because the news media is more concerned with getting ratings rather than reporting accurate information.

Cheers,

Marin