WEP's dead-er: The Final Nail in WEP’s Coffin

[Ariel Waissbein]

IMHO, an interesting read:

tapir.cs.ucl.ac.uk/bittau-wep.pdf

The Final Nail in WEP’s Coffin

Bittau, A.   Handley, M.   Lackey, J.
University College London;

This paper appears in: Security and Privacy, 2006 IEEE Symposium on
Publication Date: 21-24 May 2006
On page(s): 386- 400

Authors present an attack that allows you to send arbitrary
data on a WEP network after having eavesdropped a
single data packet!! Next, communicate with every host in the router's
LAN. And finally decrypt packets in real-time.


Ariel


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Ariel Waissbein
CORE SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES

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