DOS attack on WPA 802.11?

[James A. Donald]

    --
Arnold G. Reinhold
> Cryptographic standards should be judged on their merits, not
> on the bureaucratic difficulties in changing them. Specs have
> been amended before. Even NSA was willing to revise its
> original secure hash standard. That's why we have SHA1.  If I
> am right and WPA needlessly introduces a significant denial
> of service vulnerability, then it should be fixed.

I do not think the DOS is significant, since one can do the
same thing with a spark emitter.  The person doing the DOS has
to bring his equipment up to the target, which makes attacker
vulnerable to BBRS (Baseball bat restoration of service)

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         James A. Donald
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